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The Vampire Lestat

by Anne Rice

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A vampire’s life across centuries

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A vampire’s life across centuries

The second book in Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles centers on Lestat, tracing his passage from aristocratic life in pre-revolutionary France to fame as a rock star in the 1980s. His search for others like himself gives the novel a broader frame: alongside Lestat’s journey through time, it explores the mystery of vampire existence and the history of a supernatural world. The contrast between old-world society and modern celebrity places an immortal figure in sharply different eras, while the horror premise remains rooted in questions about what it means to live beyond ordinary human limits.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in vampire fiction and supernatural horror.
  • Those drawn to stories that move across historical periods.
  • Readers following the second volume of the Vampire Chronicles.

Themes

Vampirism and immortalityIdentity and existenceHistory and changing erasCelebrity and transformation

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Book overview

#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 VillageVoice

"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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