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 ...
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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.
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Good. Very Good DJ. No Exp Knopf 1986 9th Printing Light wear and moderate soil to white boards with gold lettering. Solid structure, tight bright pages. Bright glossy dust jacket with mended chips on corners. HEAVY ITEM.
Anne Rice rules when it comes to writing about vampires. I am reading the entire Vampire Chronicle series for the second time, having read these books about 10 years ago. I really enjoy the entire series and The Vampire Lestat is one of my favorites. Ms. Rice writes absolutely fascinating stories of the lives and histories of these creatures she has created and not just endless descriptions of blood and guts neck biting. Her writing is so beautifully descriptive I almost feel as if I'm actually watching these stories unfold. Can't wait to read the rest of the series....Queen of the Damned, here I come!
I recommend to anyone who is interested in reading this book to get the entire series, you won't be sorry. Each one is different.
HesterPrine08
Oct 31, 2008
Lestat you should have kept quiet
I won't even bother to review Interview. That was the only vampire book I truly liked and a great one at that. This one I'm only partial to. Why? In Interview Lestat was great, he was a flat out nasty arrogant jerk. And that's what I loved about him. Shallow and self absorbed through Louis' eyes. The way I would imagine a real vampire would and should be.
In this story we hear Lestat's side of the story. And find a kinder more gentler Lestat and I'm not so enamored with it. We learn of the start of his days among the undead and his creepy relationship with his mother (icky). And the truth behind his daddy issues.
In Interview Louis and Lestat had this amusing old married couple realtionship that just leapt off of the pages along with Lestat's bold personality. In this story I found him to be a bit too vanilla. I found the idea of Lestat telling his story a good one but I think if his personality from the first book would have been kept intact then this book would have been magic.
Cooper
Jun 16, 2008
If you've already read Interview With the Vampire you must read The Vampire Lestat. You get to learn how lestat was made and you get to meet many other older vampires. And in this book he explains why he was the way he was with Louis and Claudia. Its also a very exciting fast pace book. Lestat plans to become a rock star and reveal to the world that vampires are real. It truely is an amazing book and Anne Rice is an amazing author. She's so discriptive it takes very little imagination to picture the events as the occur in the book.
Cherish
May 9, 2007
Intresting History on our favorite vampire
This is showing you just how vain and larger than life Lestat can be. This is a good book that you should read if you liked Anne Rice?s movie?s because this will let you know Lestat?s history. This will tell of the cruel journey that he had to travel to become the famous and almost believable vampire. Those that thought him a horrible monster will see another side of him and why he hates the rules and families of injustice. Anne Rice?s descriptive nature really does put you there with her. I grew up in Biloxi, Mississippi and have traveled to New Orleans so many times that I can even remember a number. You can stand on the corner that she is describing in the book and know that is what she was looking at because everything right down to the lighting fits with her description.
