Synopses & Reviews
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sleeping Beauty trilogy comes an erotic, carnal tale of obsession
Handsome and famous, forty-four-year-old childrens book illustrator Jeremy Walker has all of lifes pleasures at his fingertips. But hes about to be tempted by the ultimate forbidden fantasy...
Belinda is bewitching. She is beguiling. And at sixteen she is the most seductive woman he has ever seen. As he captures her beauty on canvas, Jeremy falls completely under Belindas sensual spell.
But behind the lure of her golden hair lies a dangerous secretone that could destroy them both
Review
Praise for Belinda:
“An erotic landscape where the sensual delights are dark edged.”—The Village Voice
“Anne Rice is a fearless writer. Call her the It Girl of contemporary fiction. Whatever the venue, shes never too squeamish to reach out and touch it.”—Rolling Stone
“Erotic…rich…a lusty contemporary novel.”—L.A. Herald Examiner
“Eloquent…lusty…a wry and richly textured diary of ‘forbidden love. A compelling blend of romance and mystery.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Easily one of the most natural storytellers on the modern scene…Belinda [is] certainly her most controversial to date.”—San Francisco Chronicle
About the Author
Anne Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941, the second daughter in an Irish Catholic family. She is the author of many bestselling books. She is perhaps best known for her incredibly successful
Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire,
The Vampire Lestat,
The Queen of the Dammed,
The Tale of the Body Thief (published in Penguin) and
Memnoch the Devil. Her other books include the Mayfair witches sequence
The Witching Hour,
Lasher (both published in Penguin) and
Taltos; the novels
Cry to Heaven,
The Mummy or Ramses the Damned (both published in Penguin),
The Servant of the Bones and, recently,
Pandora, the first part of her
New Tales of the Vampires series.
She lived for many years in San Francisco but has now moved back to her native New Orleans where she lives with her husband, poet and university professor Stan Rice, and their son.