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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...
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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.
Wefollow 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 whos
