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The Tale of the Body Thief

by Anne Rice

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A solitary Lestat takes a dangerous new risk

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    The review describes the story as mysterious and dramatic, and praises its involving plot and surprising twists.

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A solitary Lestat takes a dangerous new risk

Part of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, the novel returns to Lestat, a vampire whose long existence has placed him at the center of the world of the living dead. Here, he is alone, and doubts and loneliness propel him toward what the description calls the most dangerous undertaking of his existence. The setup links the series’ supernatural world to questions of isolation and the burdens of an unusually long life, while keeping the focus on Lestat’s next consequential choice. Classified as general horror, the book is a continuation of an established vampire-fiction saga.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers following Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles.
  • Readers interested in vampire fiction and supernatural horror.
  • Readers drawn to stories centered on isolation and doubt.

Themes

LonelinessDoubtVampiric existenceRisk

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Book overview

In a gripping feat of storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now-classic Interview with the Vampire. For centuries, Lestat--vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals--has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Now he is alone. And in his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the years of his haunted existence.

Praise for The Tale of the Body Thief

"Tinged with mystery, full of drama . . . The story is involving, the twists surprising."--People

"Rice is our modern messenger of the occult, whose nicely updated dark-side passion plays twist and turn in true Gothic form."--San Francisco Chronicle

"Fast-paced . . . . mesmerizing . . . silkenly sensuous . . . No one writing today matches her deftness with the erotic."--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Hypnotic . . . masterful."--Cosmopolitan
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