A Different Kind of Anne Rice Story.
These characters are written in sagas that evolve over volumes that take the characters and their families over the years, decades and centuries.
The Feast of All Saints is a rare departure from that genre. It is not a saga and it is not supernatural.
It is a rare and moving look into a world and the history of America that many Americans never knew existed. Antebellum New Orleans was different than any other place in America.
The Feast of All Saints Is Unusual for Anne Rice
Not Supernatural, But Just As Intriguing; Thought Provoking
The human story in The Feast of All Saints is compelling and well told. It is the coming of age story of Marcel, a mixed race and mixed class young man in antebellum New Orleans circa 1940's. Several subplots are mixed in involving his mother, her lovers, and other well portrayed characters. Anne Rice's ability for family saga is unsurpassed and while this one is only one volume its intricacies rival the Mayfair witch family.However, I was especially taken in by the view of American history, one that I hadn't learned in any classroom.
New Orleans was the home of the gens de couleur libres aka free people of color. These people were the descendants of European settlers and Africans. It was common in New Orleans for slave owners to free the children born to them by slaves.
By the time of this story many of these people's families had lived free for generations, some had done quite well for themselves and even owned slaves themselves.
Other free people of color were descendants of Africans who had come to Louisiana after the 1789 rebellion in Haiti.
Marcel's story is woven into the intricacies of this complicated New Orleans society. Imagine Jane Austin with the addition of race, slavery and sexuality.
The 'colored' who owned slaves worked to hold on to their position of being tolerated by the whites whose visitors from Georgia were offended by the free slaves, but understood the class issues better than some of the natives.....
And of course, it is the story of the sexual tensions between the races, the classes and how women used each other, all with hopes of finding their own place.
Please be sure to listen to the Jennifer Beals video as she gives insight into the complexities of life for all women.
Read this book, it will be both an education in American history and human nature. It covers some of the best and worst of both.
And, of course, its a great read!
Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice
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- Aquavel Aquavel Jan 18, 2009 @ 9:50 am
- I'll have to check out this Anne Rice book! Intriguing!
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- JaguarJulie JaguarJulie Nov 17, 2008 @ 6:23 pm
- I adore Anne Rice books and just basically love her writing style. Will have to check this out.
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- papawu papawu Oct 19, 2008 @ 12:20 am
- This is one of the only Rice books I have yet to read. I have had my hands on it before and always put it back for some reason or another. Guess I should actually read it now.
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- Crystal_Booth Crystal_Booth Aug 22, 2008 @ 7:59 am
- Thanks for visiting my Anne Rice lens. I have not read the Feast of All Saints yet, but I plan to. You have been lensrolled! ~ Crystal
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However, 10 years later when I sold my Raleigh house, I couldn't face moving them across town. I purged, and purged when I moved again. And frankly, although I still believe that every room needs books, I am beginning to see walls of them as oppressive.
Enter the Kindle. I think this will save my life! Not only can I have my entire library with me at all times, but the books are much less expensive AND I am saving forests.
Its a win/win all the way around. Just so long as I have some books in each room!
Kindle: Amazon's Original Wireless Reading Device (1st generation)
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It is unwise to travel without books. You never know when you will have a long wait in an airport, well these days you can count on it. There will be rainy days, or days when you just need to get away from others, into a book.
However, which books to take? I can pack with a minimum of cloths; good thing too, because I always take too many books!
Kindle to the rescue! You can have your entire library with you at all times in a machine that isn't much bigger than a trade sized paper back.
This is the future.
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I was born into a small business, I believe that small business and entrepreneurs are the backbone of America and what has made us great. They are what made us great and will save us in these unsure times. I have never wanted to have a great job. Well, better a great one, than a boring dead end one, and I have had both. But I have never really wanted a job at all.
Don't get me wrong, I am a hard worker. I have worked a full-time job, a part time job and a private practice all at the same time for a lot of years in my past. It isn't the work, its the working for someone else. Never wanted to do that, and I don't understand those who want to do that.
When I was six months old my parents bought their first small town weekly newspaper in Iowa. This was back in the day, back when small town newspapers were not just advertising sheets. Perhaps there are still some of them that are real, I hope so.
So I came by this perverse nature naturally. My path to self employment has been different than theirs, but it has always been my path, my direction.
Growing up in Iowa, in the fifties, I also grew up politically conservative. By the time I was 30 I was radically left. Today? I am proudly liberal and what that means will be clearer as we progress.
However, I have had conflicts about 'taking advantage of people'. I now know that employing people is not automatically taking advantage of them, but it took a while for me to learn that nothing is intrinsically good or bad. Well, almost nothing.
I have educated myself in business, I have a small business and I have used EFT and other energy clearing methods to help me clarify the old conflicts and move forward.
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