false 31333 24 If neatness counts for you, don't count on Anne Rice's musical-ghost novel <I>Violin</I>. It is an eruption of the author's personal demons, as messy as the monster bursting from that poor fellow's chest in the movie <I>Alien</I>. Like Rice, the heroine Triana lives in New Orleans, mourns a dead young daughter and a drunken mother, and is subject to uncanny visions. A violin-virtuoso ghost named Stefan time-trips and globetrots with Triana, taunting her for her inability to play his Stradivarius--which echoes composer Salieri's jealousy in <I>Amadeus</I> and possibly Rice's jealousy of her successful poet husband Stan Rice in the years before her own florid, lurid writing made her famous. The storytelling here is too abstract, but the almost certainly autobiographical emotions could not be more visceral. At one point, the narrator exclaims, "Shame, blame, maim, pain, vain!" But Rice's dip in the acid bath of memory was not in vain--she packs the pain of a lifetime into 289 pages. 2925978 1997 Violin total:3516|5:507|4:736|3:1157|2:696|1:420| 3516 10762 4462 137 4 1 false false Tue Sep 04 21:28:57 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 21:28:57 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Aug 05 08:55:23 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 08:58:00 -0700 2009 Une femme, Triana, vient de perdre son mari, et oscille entre folie et raison.

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There was something very hypnotizing about this storyline, and there wasn't a single point in this book that gave way to how it was going to end.

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