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Vampire Chronicles Ser.: Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice (1985, Hardcover)
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Vampire Lestat, Hardcover by Rice, Anne, ISBN 0394534433, ISBN-13 9780394534435, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Lestat has risen from his long sleep as a modern day rock star, and makes public his story of boyhood in eighteenth-century France and initiation into vampiredom in order to solve the mystery of his existence
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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. 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100394534433
ISBN-139780394534435
eBay Product ID (ePID)114070
Product Key Features
GenreFiction, Comics & Graphic Novels
Publication Year1985
LanguageEnglish
Artist/WriterAnne Rice
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4in
Item Length9.5in
Item Width6.5in
Item Weight30.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Pages496 Pages
SeriesVampire Chronicles Ser.
Dewey Edition19
Book TitleVampire Lestat
Series Volume Number2
Lccn85-040123
Target AudienceTrade
Dewey Decimal813/.54
TopicFantasy / Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural, Horror, Thrillers / Suspense, General
Lc Classification NumberPs3568.I265v3 1985
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- Mar 21, 2018
I love this book
Anne Rice is one of my favorite authors with such compelling and colorful characters.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Oct 06, 2022
Very support novel in the vampire genre Beautifully written with interesting historical artistic etc references
Beautifully presented edition stylish cover quality paper Item as expected Correct edition in good confitipnVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Sep 27, 2021
Great buy
Book arrived on time and in excellent condition. Love the way Anne Rice brings Lestat to life! This is a must have for anyone who feels the same!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Nov 03, 2020
Great book!
Really delves deeper into the world of the vampire chronicles. This is a great readVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Jul 02, 2019
Vampire Lestat Book
Just disappointed as book did not have dust jacket. Thought ad stated it did have one. Not a major problem. Book itself is great.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Oct 23, 2019
Impressed
Beautiful, simply beautiful. The jacket, spine & pages are intact. I couldn't have ask for a better copy (unless you count my collection before the storm, hurricane Katrina) Thank you!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- May 14, 2020
The Vampire Lestat
One of the best books of the Vampire Chronicles series. Anne Rice is magnificent!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- May 17, 2016
Anne rice "the vampire lestad"
Love all the vampire chronicles of anne rice. One of my favorite author. This book is well written and the price is unbeatable . ThnxsVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- May 23, 2019
Advertised Incorrectly!
This book was advertised as a first edition. It was not. It was a BOMC edition! Worthless!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Jun 29, 2021
Must read
Lestat is a god!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
