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Article: AUTHOR ANNE RICE KISSES VAMPIRES GOODBYE.(Living)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- January 6, 2004
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Byline: Janet Mcconnaughey Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS -- Anne Rice, the author who gave new life to the undead, lives in a house full of saints.
Her library holds half a dozen 15-inch to 21/2-foot-high statues, including a porcelain Virgin Mary and Child dressed in embroidered velvet and stiff, gold lace. Almost life-sized wooden figures of Mary and of St. Lucy, holding two eyeballs on a plate, stand serenely in a dining room decorated with antebellum murals of rural Italy. A smaller, arrow-pierced St. Sebastian writhes on a sideboard, contorted in holy agony.
Rice's fascination with sanctity started long before she began "Interview With the ...