No author can turn a phrase or create such a vivid image through language quite like Anne Rice. The worlds that she has created and inspired are evident throughout the supernatural literary culture. Her fictional tales of breeding, history, family, passion, and dark loathing have kept me up many a night for weeks on end filling my very soul with concepts of devotion to a dark embracing love of supernatural characters that both set fear and fascination upon high acclaim. Would it not have been for Anne Rice’s vision through language the spirit of the vampire, witch, ghost, immortal, and wolf would have been left to two dimensional non relatable cartoonish degredants un pliable to a more modern realm of conscious acceptance for the things that dwell in shadow lands and myth. I love her work is an understatement and yet a flat out declaration of admiration and fatuous adoration.
A whole new world—modern, sleek, high-tech—and at its center, a story as old and compelling as history: the making of a werewolf, reimagined and reinvented as only Anne Rice, teller of mesmerizing tales, conjurer extraordinaire of other realms, could create.
The time is the present.
The place, the rugged coast of Northern California. A bluff high above the Pacific. A grand mansion full of beauty and tantalizing history set against a towering redwood forest.
A young reporter on assignment from the San Francisco Observer . . . An older woman welcoming him into her magnificent family home that he has been sent to write about and that she must sell with some urgency . . . A chance encounter between two unlikely people . . . An idyllic night—shattered by horrific unimaginable violence, the young man inexplicably attacked—bitten—by a beast he cannot see in the rural darkness . . . A violent episode that sets in motion a terrifying yet seductive transformation, as the young man, caught between ecstasy and horror, between embracing who he is evolving into and fearing what he will become, soon experiences the thrill of the wolf gift.
As he resists the paradoxical pleasure and enthrallment of his wolfen savagery and delights in the power and (surprising) capacity for good, he is caught up in a strange and dangerous rescue and is desperately hunted as “the Man Wolf” by authorities, the media, and scientists (evidence of DNA threatens to reveal his dual existence) . . . As a new and profound love enfolds him, questions emerge that propel him deeper into his mysterious new world: questions of why and how he has been given this gift; of its true nature and the curious but satisfying pull towards goodness; of the profound realization that there may be others like him who are watching—guardian creatures who have existed throughout time who possess ancient secrets and alchemical knowledge. And throughout it all, the search for salvation for a soul tormented by a new realm of temptations, and the fraught, exhilarating journey, still to come, of being and becoming, fully, both wolf and man.
see this master of fantasy and reality who is able to blend worlds into a fabrication of honest and insightful literary genius at Books Inc. in Opera Plaza …
ANNE RICE, bestselling author of the highly acclaimed The Vampire Chronicles will sign her new novel The Wolf Gift, a whole new world--modern, sleek, high-tech--and at its center, a story as old and compelling as history: the making of a werewolf.
Booksigning Only - Guidelines will apply - check back for details!
Location:
- Books Inc. in Opera Plaza
- 601 Van Ness
- San Francisco,
- California
- 94107
- United States
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