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The Vampire Lestat

by Anne Rice

ISBN: 0345313860
ISBN-13: 9780345313867
Format: Paperback

Summary

Lestat, who made Louis into a vampire in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, awakens from an ancient sleep and finds himself in the 1980s. Resourceful, enamored of glamour, he becomes a rock star. The novel traces the vampire legend from its origins in ancient Egypt its through European permutations and, eventually, to America.

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"Rice is a beautiful writer. Her prose glitters and every character in Lestat's dark odyssey is unique. The grimly picaresque tale swoops and veers into vampiric history, anatomy, psychology, politics, mythology, metaphysics and ethics."    -- H. J. Kirchhoff

   -- Toronto Globe and Mail

"...[I]n the classic tradition of Gothic fiction, it teases and tantalizes us into accepting its kaleidoscopic world. Even when they annoy us or tell us more than we want to know, its undead characters are utterly alive. Their adventures and frustrations are funny, frightening and surprising at once. Like her own vampires, Anne Rice seems to be at home everywhere. Like them, she makes us believe everything she sees."    -- Nina Auerbach

   -- New York Times Book Review

"'Lestat' is more than a sequel to 'Interview'; it's also a prequel and a supplement, swallowing the earlier novel whole."    -- Walter Kendrick

   -- Voice Literary Supplement

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published date: 1993
Size: 4.25 x 7 inches
Weight: 0.6 pounds
Pages: 550

Publisher's Notes

Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate, and thrilling.
"Frightening, sensual."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Other Editions

Paperback Reprint - Ballantine Books (1993) - from $1.00
Hardcover - Random House Inc (1985) - from $1.55

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