Taltos : Lives of the Mayfair Witches - Softcover
The third volume in the series featuring the Mayfair witches, following "The Witching Hour" and "Lasher". The Taltos are the spirits - immortal, dangerous and damned - from whom the Mayfairs derive their occult powers, and at whose mercy they are.
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In a swirling universe filled with death and life, corruption and innocence, this mesmerizing novel takes us on a wondrous journey back through the centuries to a civilization half-human, of wholly mysterious origin, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. It is an enchanted, hypnotic world that could only come from the imagination of Anne Rice...
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Meet Mr. Ash, quiet-spoken, tall, unfailingly kind - sole survivor of an ancient species, the Taltos - thriving among humankind as he has always done, now the head of a great corporate empire. As the novel opens, he is stunned to learn from an old and mysterious friend that another Taltos has been seen - in the very same Scottish glen where centuries ago, long before the coming of the Romans, Ash ruled his clan. At once he is propelled into the world of Rowan Mayfair, and into the mysteries of the Mayfair family - the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and the dizzying powers of his own species - a family intimately involved with the heritage of the Taltos, a family of unique, brilliant, and troubled souls struggling as they have for centuries to use both science and magic in their battle for greatness, even survival. At the heart of the novel is the Talamasca, a secular order of psychic scholars, the only organization in existence which may understand Ash, his Taltos past, and the dilemma of the Mayfair witches. The story of the Mayfair family continues, moving from London to Donnelaith, Scotland, to New Orleans, back and forth through time - from the origins of the Taltos and their mythic Lost Land to the moral crises of the present day.
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- PublisherArrow/Children's (a Division of Random House
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0099436817
- ISBN 13 9780099436812
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages528
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The third hypnotic book in her epic story of the Mayfair witches, following The Witching Hour and LasherSOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SHOW, FROM THE NETWORK BEHIND THE WALKING DEAD' 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 MoonThe Mayfair Witches face an unimaginable new threat- the Taltos - the giant race gifted with preternatural knowledge, who breed in minutes and live for centuries. The race that spawned the monster-innocent Lasher, who gave the witches their power and almost destroyed them.Unknown to the Mayfairs, another Taltos still lives- the legendary Ashla, who has done and suffered so much down the centuries. Now a frantic dance speeds them all from the dawn of history and the Dark Ages to high-tech New York, from sensuous New Orleans to Stonehenge and the Scottish Highlands, towards their ultimate fate. The Taltos - the giant race gifted with preternatural knowledge, who breed in minutes and live for centuries. The race that spawned Lasher, who gave the witches their power, and almost destroyed them. Unknown to the Mayfairs, another Taltos still lives: the legendary Ashlar, who has done and suffered so much wrong down the centuries. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780099436812
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