Lasher
As bruxas de Mayfair
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Publisher Description
Em Lasher, Anne Rice conta a trajetória fantástica de várias gerações de bruxas de Nova Orleans: a incestuosíssima família Mayfair, milionária e moderna, porém marcada pelo demônio que percorre a sua linhagem através dos séculos.
Publicado em 1993 nos Estados Unidos, Lasher é a continuação de A hora das bruxas, escrito em 1990. A hora das bruxas termina quando a supercirurgiã Rowan Mayfair e seu marido Michael Curry dão vida à entidade no tapete de sua sala. Ao nascer, Lasher se levanta e vai ao encontro de sua mãe, sequestrando-a e levando-a para longe, com a ideia fixa de se reproduzir e repovoar a terra com sua espécie.
A fecundação é imediata, mas a reprodução impossível, a menos que o demônio encontre alguém com a conjunção ideal de homem e mulher com 92 cromossomas. A história começa neste ponto de tormento. Rowan tentando se libertar da tirania do filho, enquanto dá à luz Emaleth, irmã e mulher de Lasher. O romance é mais do que este conflito. É toda a vida das gerações Mayfair.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Returning to the Mayfair clan she introduced in The Witching Hour , Rice offers another vast, transcontinental saga of witchcraft and demonism in the tradition of Gothic melodrama. The eponymous Lasher is a demon spirit who preys on female Mayfairs in his attempt to procreate. Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven who has borne Lasher's child, has now disappeared. At times this main narrative is lost as the story moves from the Louisiana Mayfairs to the Scottish Donnelaiths and the clandestine London Telamasca society, with copious personal histories and myriad characters. Long sections ramble without a compelling point of view, and are dampened by stock elements: cliched wind storms, sexy witches, the endless supply of money the Telemasca has at its disposal. At times, Lasher is too much in evidence (rattling the china, gnashing his teeth) to be frightening. But embedded in this antique demonism is a contemporary tale of incest and family abuse that achieves resonance. It is maintained through the character of Lasher, both child and man at the same time, who manipulates his victims with his own pain. At their best, Rice's characters rise above the more wooden plot machinations with an ironic and modern complexity: Mona, the young feminist witch with sharklike business instincts; Julien, the dead patriarch, who movingly recalls his male lovers; Yuri, the clever Serbian orphan. Despite lapses into uninspired language, ultimately the novel is compelling through its exhaustive monumentality. 700,000 first printing; Literary Guild main selection.
