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RICE**, ANNE: : SERVANT OF THE BONES

LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,1996.

ISBN 0701165154.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour photographic upper wrap with white, embossed letters for author and gilt embossed title,a small colour,author portrait photographic rear wrap; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creases to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges very,very lightly aged and generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine. Unblemished,plain black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-387pp includes half-title+title pages,Psalm 137,Proem,4 poems,4 Pts covering 26 chapters and a note on the type used in the book,to rear. In this electrifying novel Anne Rice tells a story every bit as mesmeric as her vampire tales, with a hero as seductive and ambivalent as the vampire Lestat. Azriel is a rebel ghost who holds in his memory the long and troubled history of Western civilization.Born almost 2,500 years ago in Babylon, of a wealthy Jewish family in exile,Azriel is forced to take the role of o god for three days,paying for his people's freedom with an eternity of half-death,half-life.Caught forever between heaven and earth,his restless spirit can be called forth by whoever holds the casket of golden bones,and understands its arcane mystery.From the household of an ancient Greek philosopher to the deathbed of Alexander the Great, from the Mongolian steppes to a pogrom in fourteenth century Strasbourg,where Jews were made scapegoats for the Black Death, Azriel bears witness. And finally in the present he is summoned to witness and avenge a brutal murder on Fifth Avenue.The dead woman is Esther, step-daughter of Gregory Belkin,fanatical, messianic leader of a worldwide cult, the Temple of the Mind.Belkin,as the world knows,is the son of Holocaust victims,but he has a secret history which binds Azriel's fate to his.Angel or demon,lured by Belkin's magnetism and riches,yet swayed by instincts he has almost forgotten,Azriel is caught up in a dizzingly malevolent plot which could destabilise the world. 'Servant of the Bones' is as rich and terrifying, as sensual and violent as any novel by Anne Rice - an enthralling epic which conjures up more than 2,000 years of Jewish history and penetrates the unfolding mysteries of evil and redemption,life and death.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.