The Roquelaure Reader: A Companion to Anne Rice's Erotica
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In The Roquelaure Reader, Katherine Ramsland, Anne Rice's acclaimed biographer as well as close friend, describes not only the Roquelaure novels but two other erotic novels Anne Rice wrote as Anne Rampling. She places this body of erotica within the context of Anne Rice's life, thought, and work, profiles the key characters, and details the special features of each novel. She discusses the novels' relationship to the erotic literary tradition and to feminist and sexual libertarian values.
She provides wonderful trivia quizzes for Roquelaure readers, and includes two chapters cut from the novel Exit to Eden.
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A companion read for Anne Rice's erotica novels. Though its titled “Roquelaure” the biographical portion of the book does not solely focus on The Sleeping Beauty series but on all erotica that Rice has written. However, if you've already read PRISM OF THE NIGHT, this doesn't seem to have too much more information in it on Rice's background/history in the genre. Much of the same content is in PRISM.
The first 1/3 of the book (70+ pages) is biographical, half the book is an encyclopedia of characters, places, and terms used in The Sleeping Beauty series, a small section on Sleeping Beauty trivia, and lastly two original chapters from EXIT TO EDEN The published versions were heavily edited - “explicit sexual scenes between Elliot and other men were cut.” I didn't read these since it has been too long since I read EXIT TO EDEN. Will wait to check these out if/when I might do a re-read of EXIT TO EDEN.
For the erotica fan or hardcore Rice fan, might be worth picking up.
