Rice Anne: Lasher

"SEDUCTIVE MAGIC...SPELLBINDING...Rice stages her scenes in a wide variety of times and locales, tapping deeply into the richest veins of mythology and history."

--San Francisco Chronicle

"STEAMY...FAST-PACED AND HUGELY ENGROSSING...Rices title character--a seductive, evil, highly sexual and ultimately tragic creature--is fascinating."

--The Miami Herald

"BEHIND ALL THE VELVET DRAPES AND GOSSAMER WINDING SHEETS, THIS IS AN OLD-FASHIONED FAMILY SAGA....Rices descriptive writing is so opulent it almost begs to be read by candlelight."

--The Washington Post Book World

"RICE SEES THINGS ON A GRAND SCALE...There is a wide-screen historical sweep to the tale as it moves from one generation of witches to the other."

--The Boston Globe

"EROTIC...EERIE...HORRIFYING...A tight tale of the occult in present-day New Orleans...Anne Rice is a spellbinding novelist.... LASHER quenches."

--Denver Post

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