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...looking for more multicultural graffiti, Bolyston Hall breaks no language barriers. Instead, the name "Matt Pykolski" looms large in the men's bathroom. Further investigation finds "Matt Pykolski Wuz Heir" decorating the staircase in Sever Hall. Suspiciously, no date is featured. After numerous phone calls to the would- be artist receive no response, the case is dismissed as someone "catching fame," as grafitti connoisseurs call...
Even as the lawyers fretted over the child's heir rights, the tabloid tom- toms spread the word that the infant's moniker was a belated art-of-the- deal tribute to real estate air rights. The eponymous Trump Tower was built in 1983 with the help of that patch of Manhattan sky owned by Tiffany & Co. How much more tasteful had the parents simply explained that Tiffany rhymes with epiphany...
...larger role of his brother, the Prince of Wales, Nick Sampson plays the pampered slug of an heir to perfection. The Prince can't wait to throw his dad into the madhouse and declare himself Regent. Anticipating this eventuality, he declares, "from now on, style is going to be everything...
...Witching Hour, Rice situates the reader in present-day New Orleans after a global jaunt through time tracking the incestuous Mayfair family of witches from their roots in Scotland to the powerful, respected family living in modern day New Orleans. In the opening chapters of Lasher, the heir to the Mayfair throne--Rowan Mayfair--has been spirited away from New Orleans by the demon Lasher. The whole of the novel is then taken up in the relentless pursuit of Rowan and the newly embodied Lasher. The broad historical and global scope which Rice so adeptly pulled off in the Vampire...
...addition, the eroticism and sexuality which seem to come so easily in other Rice novels appears forced in Lasher. Thirteen-year-old Mona Mayfair, the heir to the Mayfair line should Rowan Mayfair die, displays a precocity beyond her years evident in her sexual encounters with Rowan's husband Michael. In a narrative account of a family based on incestuous relations, Mona's sexuality does not seem out of place. After all, the Mayfair line is founded on a series of bizarre couplings between relatives and between humans and spirits all in the name of the Mayfair family...