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The Vampire Lestat

By Anne Rice

By Anne Rice

By Anne Rice

By Anne Rice

By Anne Rice

By Anne Rice

By Anne Rice

By Anne Rice

By Anne Rice
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Part of Vampire Chronicles

Part of Vampire Chronicles

Part of Vampire Chronicles

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Part of Vampire Chronicles

Paperback $18.99

Nov 29, 1997 | ISBN 9780345419644

Mass Market Paperback $8.99

Sep 12, 1986 | ISBN 9780345313867

Hardcover $40.00

Sep 12, 1985 | ISBN 9780394534435

Ebook $8.99

Nov 17, 2010 | ISBN 9780307575937

Audiobook Download $25.00

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    About The Vampire Lestat

    #1 New York Times Bestselling author – Surrender to fiction’s greatest creature of the night – Book II of the Vampire Chronicles

    The vampire hero of Anne Rice’s enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying exsitence. His is a mesmerizing story—passionate, complex, and thrilling.

    Praise for The Vampire Lestat
     
    “Frightening, sensual . . . Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature. . . . To read her is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time, to become lightheaded as if our blood is slowly being drained away.”—San Francisco Chronicle
     
    “Fiercely ambitious, nothing less than a complete unnatural history of vampires.”—The Village Voice
     
    “Brilliant . . . its undead characters are utterly alive.”—The New York Times Book Review
     
    “Luxuriantly created and richly told.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer

    About The Vampire Lestat

    #1 New York Times Bestselling author – Surrender to fiction’s greatest creature of the night – Book II of the Vampire Chronicles

    The vampire hero of Anne Rice’s enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying exsitence. His is a mesmerizing story—passionate, complex, and thrilling.

    Praise for The Vampire Lestat
     
    “Frightening, sensual . . . Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature. . . . To read her is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time, to become lightheaded as if our blood is slowly being drained away.”—San Francisco Chronicle
     
    “Fiercely ambitious, nothing less than a complete unnatural history of vampires.”—The Village Voice
     
    “Brilliant . . . its undead characters are utterly alive.”—The New York Times Book Review
     
    “Luxuriantly created and richly told.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer

    About The Vampire Lestat

    Returning to the hypnotic world she so brilliantly created in Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice demonstrates once again her power to enthrall.  

    “Brilliant … its undead characters are utterly alive.”—The New York Times Book Review

    With the same richness of drama, atmosphere and incident, she tells the fantastic story of the vampire Lestat, whom we first perceived as the seductive devil-vampire of Interview with the Vampire and whom we now follow through the ages as he searches for the origin and meaning of his own dark immortality.  And who, more and more, engages our sympathy until he stands revealed as a questing romantic, a vampire-hero with his own strange and passionate courage and morality.

    As the novel opens, Lestat, having risen from the earth after a fifty-five years’ sleep,  and infatuated with the modern world, presents himself in all his vampire brilliance as a rock star, a superstar, a seducer of millions.  And, in this blaze of adulation, daring to break the vampire oath of silence, he determines to tell his story, to rouse the generations of the living dead from their slumbers and to penetrate the riddle of his own existence.

    As he speaks we are plunged back into eighteenth-century France, into the castle where we meet the young Lestat: child of impoverished aristocrats, heroic hunter of wolves, at odds with his tyrannical father, running away to join a traveling troupe of actors.  We see him in the licentious Paris of the day, first apprentice at a boulevard theater, then its most celebrated actor, idolized, adored by many and–night after night–watched by one . . . until, in a sleep filled with dreams of the wolves he killed as a boy, he is shocked awake by a dark figure and suddenly, horribly, eternally joined to the unholy brotherhood.

    We follow Lestat as he searches for others like him–in churches and brothels, in gambling houses, huts and palaces–sometimes joined by the vampire-angel Gabrielle, who is bound to him both by blood and by passion; sometimes traveling with his adored Nicolas, the violinist whose music and beauty are equally transcendent.  We follow Lestat as he travels from the snowcapped mountains of the Auvergne and the primeval forest of ancient Gaul to Sicily, Istanbul, Venice and Cairo, searching for his origins, sometimes finding clues to the birth of the vampire race, knowing always that the central truth eludes him.

    But all the while, throughout his travels, through many lands and many times, Lestat has made enemies among his brethren–vampires who are in terror of his questions, who fear he will disturb the uneasy balance in which they exist with the mortal world, and who suspect in him a desire to rule.  And when, in the caves below a craggy Greek island, in a sanctuary whose walls are covered with gold-flecked murals, the very first of the living dead awake, the truth at the heart of his quest is at last revealed.  Ancient forces held immobile through the ages are irreversibly set in motion, and as the novel rushes to its stunning climax, Lestat’s vampire foes converge in pursuit of him on the demonic freeways of the twentieth century.

    About The Vampire Lestat

    #1 New York Times Bestselling author – Surrender to fiction’s greatest creature of the night – Book II of the Vampire Chronicles

    The vampire hero of Anne Rice’s enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying exsitence. His is a mesmerizing story—passionate, complex, and thrilling.

    Praise for The Vampire Lestat
     
    “Frightening, sensual . . . Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature. . . . To read her is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time, to become lightheaded as if our blood is slowly being drained away.”—San Francisco Chronicle
     
    “Fiercely ambitious, nothing less than a complete unnatural history of vampires.”—The Village Voice
     
    “Brilliant . . . its undead characters are utterly alive.”—The New York Times Book Review
     
    “Luxuriantly created and richly told.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer

    About The Vampire Lestat

    Lestat. The vampire hero of Anne Rice’s enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying exsitence. His is a mesmerizing story—passionate, complex, and thrilling.

    Praise for The Vampire Lestat
     
    “Frightening, sensual . . . Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature. . . . To read her is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time, to become lightheaded as if our blood is slowly being drained away.”—San Francisco Chronicle
     
    “Fiercely ambitious, nothing less than a complete unnatural history of vampires.”—The Village Voice
     
    “Brilliant . . . its undead characters are utterly alive.”—The New York Times Book Review
     
    “Luxuriantly created and richly told.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer

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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 | $18.99
    Published by Ballantine Books
    Nov 29, 1997 | 512 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780345419644

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

    Mass Market Paperback | $8.99
    Published by Ballantine Books
    Sep 12, 1986 | 576 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780345313867

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

    Hardcover | $40.00
    Published by Knopf
    Sep 12, 1985 | 496 Pages | 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780394534435

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

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Ballantine Books
    Nov 17, 2010 | 496 Pages | ISBN 9780307575937

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

    Audiobook Download | $25.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    May 31, 2011 | 1301 Minutes | ISBN 9780307914057
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    Praise

    “Frightening, sensual . . . Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature. . . . To read her is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time, to become lightheaded as if our blood is slowly being drained away.”—San Francisco Chronicle
     
    “Fiercely ambitious, nothing less than a complete unnatural history of vampires.”—The Village Voice
     
    “Brilliant . . . its undead characters are utterly alive.”—The New York Times Book Review
     
    “Luxuriantly created and richly told.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer

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