Series: Punto de Lectura | Publication Date: June 30, 2000
After over a half century underground, Lestat awakens in the 1980s to a cacophony of the electronic sounds and images that characterize the MTV generation. Particularly, he is captivated by a fledgling rock band named Satan’s Night Out. Determined both to achieve international fame and end the centuries of self-imposed vampire silence, Lestat takes command of the band (now renamed “The Vampire Lestat”) and pens his autobiography.
Blurb in Spanish:Muy diferente de los vampiros clásicos, aunque también sea inmortal y se alimente de sangre humana, el vampiro Lestat tiene poco que ver con los muertos: al contrario, es un personaje lleno de vida cuya apasionante biografía abarca desde el lascivo París del siglo XVIII a la Roma de Augusto y la Bretaña de los druidas; desde el Egipto satánico de la prehistoria al mundo frenético de las estrellas del rock... Toda la historia, prácticamente, mientras busca el secreto de su propia inmortalidad.
Lestat, the vampire hero of Interview with the Vampire is back. Once an aristocrat on the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980's, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying existence. His is a mesmerizing story - passionate, complex, and thrilling.
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Review
Brilliant...Extravagant...frightening and surprising. -- The New York Times Book Review
Fiercely ambitious, nothing less than a complete unnatural history of vampires. -- The Village Voice
Frightening, sensual...a psychological, mythical sojourn...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 light-headed as if our blood is slowly being drained away. -- San Francisco Chronicle--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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.
This book is simply excellent! Lestat is a vampire you soon learn to love. He is beautiful, and yet deadly. Another thing-Lestat always makes it in the end-unlike every other Vampire book. To all you other vampire lovers-this one's for you! It gets a little confusing in a few areas, but Anne Rice brings you right into the book with Lestat-like you're right there with him. You would think there would need to be a lot of physical sex for it to be good, but this has very little of it, and the sensuality level is still high. I love this book! @-->-- :)
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