Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Something very special...at once so light and yet so haunting." The Advocate
Review
"Articulate, baroque, and fashionably pornographic." Playboy
Synopsis
Before E.L. James Fifty Shades of Grey and Sylvia Day's Bared to You, there was Anne Rice s New York Times best seller The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
In the traditional folktale of "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind's unconscious. In the first book of the series, Anne Rice (author of
Beauty's Kingdom), writing as A.N. Roquelaure, retells the Beauty story and probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire. Here the Prince awakens Beauty, not with a kiss, but with sexual initiation. His reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty's complete and total enslavement to him . . . as Anne Rice explores the world of erotic yearning and fantasy in a classic that becomes, with her skillful pen, a compelling experience. Readers of
Fifty Shades of Grey will indulge in Rice s deft storytelling and imaginative eroticism, a sure-to-be classic for years to come.
"Articulate, baroque, and fashionably pornographic."
Playboy"Something very special . . . at once so light and yet so haunting." The Advocate
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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,
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.