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| | Anne Rice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | When the Visigoths sack his city, Marius is there; with the resurgence of the glory that was Rome, he is there, still searching for his lost love Pandora, but bewitched in turn by Botticelli, by the Renaissance beauty Bianca, with her sordid secrets, and by the boy he calls Amadeo. |
 | | Criss-crossing through the stories of other vampires from Rice’s glorious Pantheon of the undead, haunted by Pandora and by his alter ego Mael, tracked by the Talamasca, the tale of Marius, the self-styled guardian of `those who must be kept’ is the most wondrous and mindblowing of them all. |
 | | Having lost her mother when she was 15 years old and later on a daughter to leukaemia, Anne Rice created tales of vampires and everlasting life to help her through the pain. |
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