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The Wolf Gift

The Wolf Gift

by Anne Rice (Author)

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    Hardcover 2012

    $8.09
Synopsis

When Reuben, otherwise known as Sunshine Boy, was sent to write a piece about the uncertain future of the giant house on the cliff, he wasn't expecting to warm so instantly to elegant heiress Marchent Nideck. Nor was he expecting to get caught up in a violent attack which will leave him changed in ways he could never have imagined ...Anne Rice's "Vampire Chronicles" defined a genre, but now she has another age-old story in her sights: the terrifying werewolf legend. The classic monster of horror fiction is here reimagined and reinvented, with all Rice's supernatural sympathy and inventiveness, as a romantic being, a potentially tragic figure bestowed with the gift of transformation and transcendence. "The Wolf Gift" is a glorious celebration - of storytelling, of possibility, of truths revealed in the half-light. And in "The Wolf Gift's" Reuben, we have a brand new hero for a brand new Anne Rice world.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 416
 Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 09 Feb 2012
ISBN 10: 0701187441
ISBN 13: 9780701187446
Book Overview: The queen of horror is back ...

Media Reviews
The Wolf Gift is vintage Anne Rice--a lushly written, gothic...metaphysical tale. This time, with werewolves.
--Alexandra Alter, The Wall Street Journal

Anne Rice has done it again. In her latest novel, The Wolf Gift, the woman who single-handedly, reinvented the vampire genre puts her formidable talent to work rewriting 'were-wolf' lore and in the end succeeds magnificently.
--Nola Cancel, Examiner


[Rice] returns to the lushly evocative scenery and gothic atmosphere of her vampire novels with great success. . . her reimagining of a well-worn mythology is fresh and intriguing. Fans of Rice's The Vampire Chronicles and The Lives of the Mayfair Witches series should delight in this new saga delivered in the author's distinctive style. Part creation story, part love story, all excellent!
--Bette Lee Fox, Library Journal (starred)


I want to howl at the moon over this...I devoured these pages...[A] terrific new novel. . . . The plot [is] magnetic, the characters fascinating, and Rice's style as solid and engaging as anything she has written since her early vampire chronicle fiction.
--Alan Cheuse, The Boston Globe

Rice weaves her trademark meditations on the role of supernatural creatures in society into an often thrilling, page-turning yarn
--Kristine Huntley, Booklist

[A]n energetic gambol, feisty and terrific fun. . . . [A] fast-paced, heady romp that ranks with her best. . . . Wolf Gift is irresistible.
--Joy Tipping, The Dallas Morning News
[I]n Rice's hands, The Wolf Gift evolves from a fantastical romp into an engrossing thriller. . . .
--Liz Colville, San Francisco Chronicle
Anne Rice combines a vast literary gift with a shameless love of sex, beauty and pop culture. Her artistic vision is part Bela Lugosi, part Andy Warhol, part Christina the Astonishing, the medieval holy woman who could famou
Author Bio
Anne Rice is the author of more than thirty internationally bestselling books including 'The Vampire Chronicles' (from Interview with the Vampire to Blood Canticle), the 'Mayfair Witches' sequence, 'The Songs of the Seraphim' and, most recently, 'The Wolf Gift Chronicles'. She lives in California.