Ebook {Epub PDF} The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

 · Anne Rice has a lush, prosaic style of writing. She’s a sensualist, as is obvious in her descriptions of light, darkness, death, blood, spirit encounters and lovemaking. All of these descriptions are sprinkled throughout The Witching Hour, but though she is very much a sensualist, I don’t get a sense that she’s a foodie sensualist. The Witching Hour. Anne Rice. Ballantine Books, - Fiction - pages. 61 Reviews. From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a huge mesmerizing novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries. Two people with special powers are drwan together and set out in a passionate alliance to unlock the mystery of her 4/5(61).  · In this case, Anne Rice's The Witching Hour was part of a book club, and though I loathed it, I trekked through it all. There are many issues that I have with this novel, starting off with the fact that it's about 1, pages and could be told in around /5(K).

Discussion of themes and motifs in Anne Rice's The Witching Hour. eNotes critical analyses help you gain a deeper understanding of The Witching Hour so you can excel on your essay or test. I first read The Witching Hour in a two-year struggle between my last year of high school and freshman year of college. At the time, I loved Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. I loved the vampires themselves, the richness of the settings (from New Orleans to France and Italy). I figured I'd love everything by Anne Rice, but The Witching Hour was such a drag. Anne Rice is also the author of other novels, including The Witching Hour, Servant of the Bones, Merrick, Blackwood Farm, Blood Canticle, Violin, and Cry to Heaven. She lives in Palm Desert, California, but misses her home in New Orleans. She hopes to obtain a pied a terre in the French Quarter there some time in the near future.

This item: The Witching Hour (signed), Anne Rice, ; hardcover by Anne Rice Hardcover $ Only 1 left in stock - order soon. Ships from and sold by Mega-Movie-Deals. Lasher (Lives of the Mayfair Witches) by Anne Rice Hardcover $ Only 1 left in stock - order soon. Overview. Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding stoyrtelling, Anne Rice makes real a family of witches—a family given to poetry and incest, to murder and philsophy, a family that is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous and seductive being. "Unfolds like a poisonous lotus blossom redolent with luxurious evil.". The Witching Hour. The first in the Mayfair Witches series, The Witching Hour introduces the fictional Mayfair family of New Orleans, generations of male and female witches. This tight-knit and deeply connected family, where a death of one strengthens the others with his/her knowledge. One Mayfair witch per generation is also designated to receive the powers of "the man," known as Lasher.