By Anne Rice
In this captivating novel, the acclaimed writer of The Vampire Chronicles and the Lives of the Mayfair Witches makes actual for us the beautiful and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the fragile and welcoming male sopranos whose swish our bodies and excellent voices introduced them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera homes of Europe, males who lived as idols, concealing their discomfort as they have been loved as angels, but avoided as half-men.
As we're drawn into their darkish and luminous tale, because the crowds of Venetians, Neopolitans, and Romans, noblemen and peasants, musicians, prelates, princes, saints, and intriguers swirl round them, Anne Rice brings us into the sweep of eighteenth-century Italian existence, into the decadence underneath the shimmering floor of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius. it's a novel that simply Anne Rice can have written, taking us right into a heartbreaking and mesmerizing second in historical past, a time of significant ambition and nice suffering—a story that demanding situations our inner most pictures of the masculine and the female.
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Los Keane llegaron a la conclusión de que el atentado de Oklahoma era una operación del gobierno, al igual que el anterior atentado del World Trade Center, ya que un agente secreto les dio a los terroristas instrucciones detalladas de cómo construir la bomba, les ayudó a conseguir los materiales e incluso les dio clases de conducir a los terroristas que acababan de entrar en el país para que pudiesen llevar el camión hasta el lugar del objetivo. Los Keane estaban convencidos de que en el caso de Oklahoma también había implicados agentes secretos del FBI.
Las cinco funcionaban con bombillas compactas fosforescentes de 15 W de Panasonic. Cuando se acabara el surtido de bombillas que tenían, Todd tenía planeado usar unos adaptadores que había comprado en la tienda Real Goods en Hopland, California, que se colocaban en los portalámparas normales y corrientes. Dentro de cada adaptador iba una toma tipo «bayoneta» que sujetaba unas luces traseras de coche de 12 V de corriente continua. Todd había previsto que podrían conseguir más piezas de recambio de los muchos coches abandonados en las carreteras.
Después de decir eso, Matt se sentó en el borde de una de las mesas que habían alquilado y cruzó las manos. La multitud congregada se puso a aplaudir. El promotor se marchó sin decir nada y con la cara roja de vergüenza. Uno de los hombres que había entre la multitud se acercó a estrecharle la mano a Matt. —Ojalá lo hubiese grabado —le dijo—. ¿Quién es usted, un abogado? —No, señor, tan solo soy un ciudadano que pasa demasiado tiempo en bibliotecas especializadas en Derecho. Cuatro años antes del colapso, Matt tenía veinticuatro años y su hermano acababa de cumplir veinte.