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Plot Summary of Cry to Heaven
"The story of a young aristocrat that is forced to become one of the castrati (young boys that were castrated by the church so that they could keep their child-like voices) and an ex-castrati that is now a composer. Beautiful prose, crushingly tragic throughout but with an uplifting ending, and very real. If you don't happen to have a time machine this is the next best thing."
Shane Tiernan, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of Cry to Heaven
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Plot
Tone of book? - upbeat
Time/era of story - 18th century
Life of a profession: - artist
Inside culture (main char) - Italian
Internal struggle/realization? Yes
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Job/Profession/Status story Yes
Ethnic/regional/gender life Yes

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - artist
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental Yes
Eccentric: - emotionally unstable
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - none

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 9 (quite a lot)
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK - France - Italy

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - descript. of female anat. (the big V) - descript. of nude males (the big P) - male homosexuals doing their thing
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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