Cry to Heaven
by Anne Rice
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They were the castrati--male sopranos whose glorious voices brought them adulation throughout Europe even as they were despised as "monsters". For Tonio Treschi, the child of Venetian nobility, kidnapped and castrated in a murderous family conspiracy, only one thing would soothe his soul--revenge!
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Un grito al cielo / Cry to Heaven
Jul 22, 2011, B de Bolsillo (Ediciones B), Ediciones B
mass market paperback
in Spanish
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Cry to Heaven
April 1, 1995, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback
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Cry to heaven
1982, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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"GUIDO MAFFEO was castrated when he was six years old and sent to study with the finest singing masters in Naples."
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In a sweeping saga of music and vengeance, the acclaimed author of The Vampire Chronicles draws readers into eighteenth-century Italy, bringing to life the decadence beneath the shimmering surface of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius. This is the story of the castrati, the exquisite and otherworldly sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices win the adulation of royal courts and grand opera houses throughout Europe. These men are revered as idols--and, at the same time, scorned for all they are not.
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