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Interview with the Vampire

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By Anne Rice

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Mar 18, 1997 | ISBN 9780345409645

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Sep 13, 1991 | ISBN 9780345337665

Hardcover $37.00

Apr 12, 1976 | ISBN 9780394498218

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Nov 17, 2010 | ISBN 9780307575852

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    About Interview with the Vampire

    The spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author—the inspiration for the hit television series

    “A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire.”—Chicago Tribune

    Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force—a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.

    About Interview with the Vampire

    The spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author—the inspiration for the hit television series

    “A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire.”—Chicago Tribune

    Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force—a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.

    About Interview with the Vampire

    40th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, “a magnificent, compulsively readable thriller…Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire” (Chicago Tribune). • The inspiration for the hit television series

    The time is now.

    We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks–as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead. . .

    He speaks quietly, plainly, even gently . . . carrying us back to the night when he departed human existence as heir–young, romantic, cultivated–to a great Louisiana plantation, and was inducted by the radiant and sinister Lestat into the other, the “endless,” life . . . learning first to sustain himself on the blood of cocks and rats caught in the raffish streets of New Orleans, then on the blood of human beings . . . to the years when, moving away from his final human ties under the tutelage of the hated yet necessary Lestat, he gradually embraces the habits, hungers, feelings of vampirism: the detachment, the hardened will, the “superior” sensual pleasures.

    He carries us back to the crucial moment in a dark New Orleans street when he finds the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her, struggling against the last residue of human feeling within him . . .

    We see how Claudia in turn is made a vampire–all her passion and intelligence trapped forever in the body of a small child–and how they arrive at their passionate and dangerous alliance, their French Quarter life of opulence: delicate Grecian statues, Chinese vases, crystal chandeliers, a butler, a maid, a stone nymph in the hidden garden court . . . night curving into night with their vampire senses heightened to the beauty of the world, thirsting for the beauty of death–a constant stream of vulnerable strangers awaiting them below . . .

    We see them joined against the envious, dangerous Lestat, embarking on a perilous search across Europe for others like themselves, desperate to discover the world they belong to, the ways of survival, to know what they are and why, where they came from, what their future can be . . .

    We follow them across Austria and Transylvania, encountering their kind in forms beyond their wildest imagining . . . to Paris, where footsteps behind them, in exact rhythm with their own, steer them to the doors of the Théâtre des Vampires–the beautiful, lewd, and febrile mime theatre whose posters of penny-dreadful vampires at once mask and reveal the horror within . . . to their meeting with the eerily magnetic Armand, who brings them, at last, into intimacy with a whole brilliant and decadent society of vampires, an intimacy that becomes sudden terror when they are compelled to confront what they have feared and fled . . .

    In its unceasing flow of spellbinding storytelling, of danger and flight, of loyalty and treachery, Interview with the Vampire bears witness of a literary imagination of the first order.

    About Interview with the Vampire

    The spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author—the inspiration for the hit television series

    “A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire.”—Chicago Tribune

    Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force—a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.

    About Interview with the Vampire

    40th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, “a magnificent, compulsively readable thriller…Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire” (Chicago Tribune). • The inspiration for the hit television series

    The time is now.

    We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks–as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead. . .

    He speaks quietly, plainly, even gently . . . carrying us back to the night when he departed human existence as heir–young, romantic, cultivated–to a great Louisiana plantation, and was inducted by the radiant and sinister Lestat into the other, the “endless,” life . . . learning first to sustain himself on the blood of cocks and rats caught in the raffish streets of New Orleans, then on the blood of human beings . . . to the years when, moving away from his final human ties under the tutelage of the hated yet necessary Lestat, he gradually embraces the habits, hungers, feelings of vampirism: the detachment, the hardened will, the “superior” sensual pleasures.

    He carries us back to the crucial moment in a dark New Orleans street when he finds the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her, struggling against the last residue of human feeling within him . . .

    We see how Claudia in turn is made a vampire–all her passion and intelligence trapped forever in the body of a small child–and how they arrive at their passionate and dangerous alliance, their French Quarter life of opulence: delicate Grecian statues, Chinese vases, crystal chandeliers, a butler, a maid, a stone nymph in the hidden garden court . . . night curving into night with their vampire senses heightened to the beauty of the world, thirsting for the beauty of death–a constant stream of vulnerable strangers awaiting them below . . .

    We see them joined against the envious, dangerous Lestat, embarking on a perilous search across Europe for others like themselves, desperate to discover the world they belong to, the ways of survival, to know what they are and why, where they came from, what their future can be . . .

    We follow them across Austria and Transylvania, encountering their kind in forms beyond their wildest imagining . . . to Paris, where footsteps behind them, in exact rhythm with their own, steer them to the doors of the Théâtre des Vampires–the beautiful, lewd, and febrile mime theatre whose posters of penny-dreadful vampires at once mask and reveal the horror within . . . to their meeting with the eerily magnetic Armand, who brings them, at last, into intimacy with a whole brilliant and decadent society of vampires, an intimacy that becomes sudden terror when they are compelled to confront what they have feared and fled . . .

    In its unceasing flow of spellbinding storytelling, of danger and flight, of loyalty and treachery, Interview with the Vampire bears witness of a literary imagination of the first order.

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    About Anne Rice

    Anne Rice is the author of thirty-seven books, including the Vampire Chronicles, the Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and the Wolf Gift book series. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and grew up there and in Texas. She… More about Anne Rice

    About Anne Rice

    Anne Rice is the author of thirty-seven books, including the Vampire Chronicles, the Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and the Wolf Gift book series. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and grew up there and in Texas. She… More about Anne Rice

    About Anne Rice

    Anne Rice is the author of thirty-seven books, including the Vampire Chronicles, the Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and the Wolf Gift book series. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and grew up there and in Texas. She… More about Anne Rice

    About Anne Rice

    Anne Rice is the author of thirty-seven books, including the Vampire Chronicles, the Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and the Wolf Gift book series. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and grew up there and in Texas. She… More about Anne Rice

    About Anne Rice

    Anne Rice is the author of thirty-seven books, including the Vampire Chronicles, the Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and the Wolf Gift book series. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and grew up there and in Texas. She… More about Anne Rice

    Product Details

    Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Paranormal Fiction | Gothic & Horror | Suspense & Thriller

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Ballantine Books
    Mar 18, 1997 | 368 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780345409645

    Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Paranormal Fiction | Gothic & Horror | Suspense & Thriller

    Mass Market Paperback | $8.99
    Published by Ballantine Books
    Sep 13, 1991 | 368 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780345337665

    Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Paranormal Fiction | Gothic & Horror | Suspense & Thriller

    Hardcover | $37.00
    Published by Knopf
    Apr 12, 1976 | 352 Pages | 5-5/8 x 8-3/8 | ISBN 9780394498218

    Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Paranormal Fiction | Gothic & Horror | Suspense & Thriller

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Ballantine Books
    Nov 17, 2010 | 352 Pages | ISBN 9780307575852

    Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Paranormal Fiction | Gothic & Horror | Suspense & Thriller | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $25.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    May 31, 2011 | 865 Minutes | ISBN 9780307914019
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    Praise

    “A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth–the education of the vampire.”—Chicago Tribune
     
    “Unrelentingly erotic . . . sometimes beautiful, and always unforgettable.”—Washington Post
     
    “If you surrender and go with her . . . you have surrendered to enchantment, as in a voluptuous dream.”—Boston Globe
     
    “A chilling, thought-provoking tale, beautifully frightening, sensuous, and utterly unnerving.”—Hartford Courant

    Author Essay

    It seems amazing to me that I didn’t get around to reading this book until years after it had been first published, especially because I’m a big vampire fan.  I was working in a bookstore and finally picked it up…and couldn’t put it down until I’d finished it.  Interview is one of those books that stays with you long after you’ve read it.  I still have moments were something will remind me of it and I’ll sit there thinking about a particular scene or character.  It was only a few months after reading this, and tearing through the sequel, as well, that I went to work for Ballantine and got the chance to sell Anne Rice’s books as well as read them. I guess it was fate.

    -Lisa Congelosi, Ballantine Sales Rep.

     

    It seems amazing to me that I didn’t get around to reading this book until years after it had been first published, especially because I’m a big vampire fan.  I was working in a bookstore and finally picked it up…and couldn’t put it down until I’d finished it.  Interview is one of those books that stays with you long after you’ve read it.  I still have moments were something will remind me of it and I’ll sit there thinking about a particular scene or character.  It was only a few months after reading this, and tearing through the sequel, as well, that I went to work for Ballantine and got the chance to sell Anne Rice’s books as well as read them. I guess it was fate.

    Lisa Congelosi, Ballantine Sales Rep.

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