The Mummy

Author: Rice, Anne

Brand: Penguin Random House

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 480

Release Date: 04-11-2004

Details: Product Description
'[W]hen I found Rice's work I absolutely loved how she took that genre and (...) made [it] feel so contemporary and relevant' Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes'[Rice wrote] in the great tradition of the gothic' Ramsey Campbell, bestselling author of The Hungry MoonRamses the Great has reawakened in opulent Edwardian London. Having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied. He becomes the close companion of a voluptuous heiress, Julie Stratford, but his cursed past again propels him toward disaster. He is tormented by searing memories of his last reawakening, at the behest of Cleopatra, his beloved queen of Egypt. And his intense longing for her, undiminished over the centuries, will force him to commit an act that will place everyone around him in the gravest danger....
Review
Rice succeeds masterfully in blending horror and romance- Ramses is a fascinating character, heroic, yet tragically flawed by his human desires ―
Atlanta Journal

The reader is held captive, and, ultimately, seduced ―
San Francisco Chronicle

Vintage Anne Rice: quickly paced, elegantly erotic and full of enchanting terror ―
Detroit Free Press
About the Author
Anne Rice is the author of more than thirty internationally bestselling books including the Mayfair Witches sequence, Songs of the Seraphim and the Wolf Gift Chronicles. The phenomenon that became the Vampire Chronicles began with
Interview with the Vampire in 1976, later made into a film starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, and culminated with
Blood Canticle in 2003.
Prince Lestat, published in 2014, and
Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, published in 2016, were the first new Vampire Chronicle novels for over a decade. Anne Rice lives in California.

EAN: 9780099471370

Package Dimensions: 9.8 x 4.4 x 1.9 inches

Languages: english