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Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice

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Author Biography

Name: Anne Rice
Variant Name: Anne Rampling, A. N. Roquelaure
Birth Date: October 4, 1941
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Anne Rice
7160 words, approx. 23.9 pages
Anne Rice is a best-selling author of Gothic novels, historical fiction, and erotica under her own name and two pseudonyms. Interest in Rice's life has earned her celebrity status among her fans. Not only does Rice intertwine the past and present, but he...
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Biography of Anne Rice
5807 words, approx. 19.4 pages
Called the "diva of dark forces," by Book's Julia Kamysz Lane, Anne Rice is considered one of the leading practitioners of Gothic writing in contemporary literature. With three dozen books published, bestselling novelist R ice has built her career, accor...
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Biography of Anne Rice
4403 words, approx. 14.7 pages
In her fiction, Anne Rice (born 1941) seduces her readers through an ornate prose style and a painstaking attention to detail. With her careful blend of accurate historical elements with such themes as alienation and the individual's search for identity,...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Servant of the Bones Information
1,275 words, approx. 4 pages
Servant of the Bones (1996) is a historical horror novel by Anne...


News and Journals
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Publishers Weekly
Servant of the Bones. (book reviews)
06/03/1996: 279 words, approx. 1 pages
Anne Rice. Knopf, $25.95 (400p) ISBN 0-679-42832-7 Neither a vampire nor a witch nor a mummy, but a genie provides the focus of Rice's latest (after Memnoch the Devil). The queen of high-decadent gothic deviates from her formula of interlacing spirituality and...
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The New Crisis
The servant
07/01/2000: 1,325 words, approx. 4 pages
In this short story, Fenton Johnson introduces the reader to Elizabeth (Liza) Jan, an African-American servant. Liza, a Southerner, finds herself working for an "uppity" Chicago black family. Although the indignities of racism have always been part of her existence, she now experiences a...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Daniel Mendelsohn
1,555 words, approx. 5 pages
In the following review, Mendelsohn offers unfavorable assessment of Servant of the Bones.


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Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice

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