The Vampire Lestat

by Anne Rice

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Lestat’s origins and the vampire world

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Lestat’s origins and the vampire world

Anne Rice shifts the perspective to Lestat, tracing his life from eighteenth-century France through journeys across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The narrative connects his rise from an impoverished aristocratic family and his transformation into a vampire with a later life in the modern world as a rock star. Across these periods, Lestat searches for the beginnings of the vampire race and the meaning of his immortality, while his questions unsettle other vampires who fear what he may uncover. The book pairs that personal quest with a wider supernatural history, bringing the vampire community’s hidden past into conflict with the present.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

Readers interested in vampire fiction with an emphasis on origins and supernatural history.
Those who enjoy narratives spanning historical settings and the modern world.
Readers familiar with Interview with the Vampire who want Lestat’s story from his own perspective.

Themes

Immortality and identityOrigins and hidden historiesPower, secrecy, and conflictTransformation across time

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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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