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Interview with the Vampire [Hardcover]

Anne Rice (Author)
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1976
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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 371 pages
  • Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition (1976)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0394498216
  • ISBN-13: 978-0394498218
  • ASIN: B001IBTOXY
  • Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.7 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #565,263 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Anne Rice was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She holds a Master of Arts Degree in English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, as well as a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science.

She is the author of over 30 books, most recently the Toby O'Dare novels Of Love and Evil, and Angel Time; the memoir, Called Out of Darkness;and her two novels about Jesus, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt and Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana,

Anne publicly broke with organized religion in July of 2010 on moral grounds, affirming her faith in God, but refusing any longer to be called "Christian." The story attracted surprising media attention, with Rice's remarks being quoted in stories all over the world.

Anne is very active on her FaceBook Fan Page and has over 550,000 followers. She answers questions every day on the page, and also posts on a variety of topics, including literature, film, music, politics, religion, and her own writings. She welcomes discussion there on numerous topics.

Her latest novel, The Wolf Gift, a werewolf story set in Northern California in the present time, will be published on February 14th, 2012. With this book, Anne returns to the classic monsters and themes of supernatural literature, similar to those she explored in her Vampire Chronicles, and tales of the Mayfair Witches.

Her first novel, Interview with the Vampire, was published in 1976 and has gone on to become one of the best-selling novels of all time. She continued her saga of the Vampire Lestat in a series of books, collectively known as The Vampire Chronicles, which have had both great mainstream and cult followings.

Interview with the Vampire was made into a motion picture in 1994, starring Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Kirsten Dunst and Antonio Banderas. Anne's novel, Feast of All Saints about the free people of color of ante-bellum New Orleans became a Showtime mini series in 2001.

Anne Rice is also the author of other novels, including The Witching Hour, Servant of the Bones, Merrick, Blackwood Farm, Blood Canticle, Violin, and Cry to Heaven. She lives in Palm Desert, California.

 

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4.0 out of 5 stars Is this book right for me? Or a potential readers guide to choosing novels., January 17, 2012
This review is from: Interview with the Vampire (Hardcover)
It seems inevitable that with the resurgent popularity of all things VAMPIRE that this book would start popping up again on everybody's "to read" list. But what's popular now in modern vampire mythos is completely anathema to everything this book is, and I can't help but feel a little sad on behalf of both the unwitting reader picking this book up to satisfy what they think is going to be a quick vampire fix, and for the text its self. A quick scroll through the reviews for this and you'll see a lot of reviews starting off with BORING and WHAT A DRAG and I'M NOT STUPID BUT THIS WAS AWFUL. There's something to be said about paring off the right book with the right reader.

It's funny, other than Dracula, the great now and always and forever gothic classic of Victorian times, this is the only vampire book to make it onto that much coveted and discussed 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list. And despite this, I think that this book's major failing is that, despite it's content, because it uses the super natural as a vehicle for its tale, it has a heck of a time making it into the hands of the readers who would most appreciate this. Interview is not a quick, gory, slick or even a sexy read. Heck, for those of you who like vampire sex let me spell it out to you - the vampires in Anne Rice novels are physically incapable of performing the deed. Looses something right there doesn't it? Instead what this book really is, is a relatively modern look at atheism vs spirituality with more than a healthy meditation on the ability/inability of art to become a working substitute for human connections. If you suddenly woke up one day and found that you would never have to face god, or judgement, would you continue to live as a good person? Does doing something evil render you incapable of normal human emotion? What does it truly mean to live forever? These are the questions Rice grapples with in her debut novel to varying degrees of success, and if she doesn't always find the answer she is searching for, there's something to be said about at least making the journey itself.

So no, this isn't like other vampire novels out there. In fact I could say that this is the unvampire novel of the ages, the supernatural book for people burned out on tawdry vampire romances that have no conception of the true passage of time from one age into the next. If you're looking for something a bit more meaningful, if you don't mind that old fashioned Victorian style of writing where it takes three pages to say what could have been said in one line, if you can juggle the eerie feeling of encountering an antiquated set of morals against your own, then give this one a chance.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Inspiration Behind My Own Vampire Story, December 9, 2011
This review is from: Interview with the Vampire (Hardcover)
I have always been a huge fan of Anne Rice's work. This book, the beginning of the story of Lestat is rearkable. It inspired me to write my own vampire story called The Blood Reapers which is also here on Amazon. I would highly reccomend this book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars As Advertised, June 14, 2011
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I bought this hardcover to replace my paperback. It arrived ahead of the promised date and in the condition promised.
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