The Feast of All Saints

by Anne Rice

Alternate cover edition located here and here .

"They were New Orleans' gen de couleur libre - the copper-skinned half-castes who lived recklessly and loved passionately, trapped in a world between black and white.

Marcel - the young, blue-eyed scholar, sensitive, and longing always for Paris. Marie - his breathtakingly beautiful sister, cursed with the ability to pass for white. Cristophe - novelist and teacher, the idol of all the young gens. Anna Bella - light in skin, African in feature, chosen for the white man."

-from the back cover-

Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Historical, Paranormal, Vampires

640 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien) was a best-selling American author of gothic, supernatural, historical, erotica, and later religious themed books. Best known for The Vampire Chronicles, her prevailing thematic focus is on love, death, immortality, existentialism, and the human condition. She was married to poet Stan Rice for 41 years until his death in 2002. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history.

Anne Rice passed on December 11, 2021 due to complications from a stroke. She was eighty years old at the time of her death.

She uses the pseudonym Anne Rampling for adult-themed fiction (i.e., erotica) and A.N. Roquelaure for fiction featuring sexually explicit sado-masochism.