Rice Anne. The Wolf Gift

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. – 954 p.
Language: English.
Description: A daring new departure from the inspired creator of The Vampire . A whole new world — modern, sleek, high-tech — and at its center, a story as old and compelling as history: the making of a werewolf, reimagined and reinvented as only Anne Rice, teller of mesmerizing tales, conjurer extraordinaire of other realms, could create. The time is the present. The place, the rugged coast of Northern California. A bluff high above the Pacific. A grand mansion full of beauty and tantalizing history set against a towering redwood forest. A young reporter on assignment from the San Francisco Observer. An older woman welcoming him into her magnificent family home that he has been sent to write about and that she must sell with some urgency. A chance encounter between two unlikely people. An idyllic night — shattered by horrific unimaginable violence, the young man inexplicably attacked — bitten — by a beast he cannot see in the rural darkness.