An edition of The Vampire Lestat (1986)

The Vampire Lestat

The Second Book in the Vampire Chronicles

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An edition of The Vampire Lestat (1986)

The Vampire Lestat

The Second Book in the Vampire Chronicles

29th printing
  • 4.28 ·
  • 36 Ratings
  • 225 Want to read
  • 13 Currently reading
  • 69 Have read

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.

We follow 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 whose music and beauty are equally transcendent. We follow Lestat as he travels from the snowcapped mountains of the Auvergne and the primeval forest of ancient Gaul to Sicily, Istanbul, Venice and Cairo, searching for his origins, sometimes finding clues to the birth of the vampire race, knowing always that the central truth eludes him.

But all the while, throughout his travels, through many lands and many times, Lestat has made enemies among his brethren--vampires who are in terror of his questions, who fear he will disturb the uneasy balance in which they exist with the mortal world, and who suspect in him a desire to rule. And when, in the caves below a craggy Greek island, in a sanctuary whose walls are covered with gold-flecked murals, the very first of the living dead awake, the truth at the heart of his quest is at last revealed. Ancient forces held immobile through the ages are irreversibly set in motion, and as the novel rushes to its stunning climax, Lestat's vampire foes converge in pursuit of him on the demonic freeways of the twentieth century.

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Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English
Pages
481

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Crónicas Vampíricas II: Lestat el Vampiro
2009-05, Zeta Bolsillo
Paperback in Spanish - 2a reimpression
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Lestat le Vampire / Lestat the Vampire
January 2004, Pocket (FR)
Paperback in French
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Vampirin Sarkısı
2001, Kelbek
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Lestat le vampire
1999-11, Albin Michel
Mass Market Paperback in French
Cover of: The Vampire Lestat
The Vampire Lestat: The Second Book in the Vampire Chronicles
1998 08, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover in English - 29th printing
Cover of: Lestat el Vampiro
Lestat el Vampiro
1995 03, Ediciones B
Paperback in Spanish - 1st edition, 4th reimpression; Movie Tie-In
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The Vampire Lestat: Book II of The Vampire Chronicles
1993-10, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Ballantine Books edition, 25th printing
Cover of: Lestat le vampire
Lestat le vampire
1993-01, Albin Michel
Mass Market Paperback in French
Cover of: The Vampire Lestat
The Vampire Lestat: The Second Book in The Vampire Chronicles
1992-03, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover in English - Thirteenth printing
Cover of: The Vampire Lestat
The Vampire Lestat: Book II of The Vampire Chronicles
1989-10, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Ballantine Books edition, 9th printing

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New York, USA

Edition Notes

Sequel to: Interview with the vampire.
US/CAN

Series
The Vampire Chronicles, #2
Copyright Date
1985

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3568.I265 V3 1985

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
481 p. ;
Number of pages
481

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2549946M
Internet Archive
vampirelestat00rice_0
ISBN 10
0394534433
ISBN 13
9780394534435
LCCN
85040123
OCLC/WorldCat
41173543
Library Thing
3449
Goodreads
333719

Work Description

The Vampire Lestat (1985) is a vampire novel by American writer Anne Rice, the second in her Vampire Chronicles, following Interview with the Vampire (1976). The story is told from the point of view of the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt as narrator, while Interview is narrated by Louis de Pointe du Lac. Several events in the two books appear to contradict each other, allowing the reader to decide which version of events they believe to be accurate.

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I am the vampire Lestat.
added by Lisa. "first sentence"

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