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Taltos
 

Taltos

by Anne Rice

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... (read review)

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Gia d
  • Rated 5 stars

“Intresting! Makes you think it could be possible to have others living amongst us.”

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Tinky
  • Rated 1 stars

“It's a shame it wasn't published by the Charmin Tissue Company.”

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  • Rated 3.673575 stars
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  • Rated 3.5 stars
  

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  • cirrus

    cirrus said:

    “anne rice scrie mult.
    =))”

    posted Sunday, April 13 2008
  • Jessica J

    jessica j said:

    “The following content was provided by the publisher:

    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. ”

    posted Friday, March 28 2008
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