The Vampire Lestat

The Second Book in the Vampire Chronicles

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Anne Rice: The Vampire Lestat (Hardcover, 1998, Alfred A. Knopf)

Hardcover, 481 pages

English language

Published Aug. 11, 1998 by Alfred A. Knopf.

ISBN:
978-0-394-53443-5
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OCLC Number:
41173543

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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 …

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Subjects

  • Vampires -- Fiction
  • Lestat (Fictitious character) -- Fiction