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In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its publication The time is now. We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks--as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead. . . He speaks quietly, plainly, even gently . . . carrying us back to the night when he departed human existence as heir--young, romantic, cultivated--to a great Louisiana plantation, and was inducted by the radiant and sinister Lestat into the other, the "endless," life . . . learning first to sustain himself on the blood of cocks and rats caught in the raffish streets of New Orleans, then on the blood of human beings . . . to the years when, moving away from his final human ties under the tutelage of the hated yet necessary Lestat, he gradually embraces the habits, hungers, feelings of vampirism: the detachment, the hardened will, the "superior" sensual pleasures. He carries us back to the crucial moment in a dark New Orleans street when he finds the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her, struggling against the last residue of human feeling within him . . . We see how Claudia in turn is made a vampire--all her passion and intelligence trapped forever in the body of a small child--and how they arrive at their passionate and dangerous alliance, their French Quarter life of opulence: delicate Grecian statues, Chinese vases, crystal chandeliers, a butler, a maid, a stone nymph in the hidden garden court . . . night curving into night with their vampire senses heightened to the beauty of the world, thirsting for the beauty of death--a constant stream of vulnerable strangers awaiting them below . . . We see them joined against the envious, dangerous Lestat, embarking on a perilous search across Europe for others like themselves, desperate to discover the world they belong to, the ways of survival, to know what they are and why, where they came from, what their future can be . . . We follow them across Austria and Transylvania, encountering their kind in forms beyond their wildest imagining . . . to Paris, where footsteps behind them, in exact rhythm with their own, steer them to the doors of the Th tre des Vampires--the beautiful, lewd, and febrile mime theatre whose posters of penny-dreadful vampires at once mask and reveal the horror within . . . to their meeting with the eerily magnetic Armand, who brings them, at last, into intimacy with a whole brilliant and decadent society of vampires, an intimacy that becomes sudden terror when they are compelled to confront what they have feared and fled . . . In its unceasing flow of spellbinding storytelling, of danger and flight, of loyalty and treachery, Interview with the Vampire bears witness of a literary imagination of the first order.
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Rice, Anne
- ISBN: 9780394498218
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 8.70 x 1.27
- Number Of Pages: 352
- Publication Year: 1976
Language:
English
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Don't have a child until you're ready for one
Mollie H. - 1 year 10 months agoInterview With the Vampire is one of my favorite books. It's got vampires, murder and just a hint of romance to it. Based in New Orleans, and then France, this book follows the story of Louis as he's telling his interviewer the story of his life before (and after) becoming a vampire. The characters are immaculate in their creativity and fit perfectly within the time frame given. I highly recommend this book if you're looking for something so intriguing you'll be up all night just dying to know what happens next (pun intended).
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10/10.
Kai M. - 4 years 10 months agoi love it but now wish i was an 18-century queer vampire tbh.
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Read it!
Shannon M. - 5 years 1 month agoI read this book for the 1st time in 93, it too about 24 hours. No sleeping, just reading! To date still one of my favorite books,
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Keep an open mind about some characters
Jeanette P. - 6 years 2 months agoOne of my favorite books on my shelf. Wait till you get to book 2