Prince Lestat - Softcover

Rice, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1101872985 ISBN 13: 9781101872987

Publisher: Random House LLC US, 1900

Synopsis

"What can we do but reach for the embrace that must now contain both heaven and hell: our doom again and again and again" --from The Vampire Lestat Rice once again summons up the irresistible spirit-world of the oldest and most powerful forces of the night, invisible beings unleashed on an unsuspecting world able to take blood from humans, in a long-awaited return to the extraordinary world of the Vampire Chronicles and the uniquely seductive Queen of the Damned ("mesmerizing" --San Francisco Chronicle), a long-awaited novel that picks up where The Vampire Lestat ("brilliantits undead characters are utterly alive" --New York Times) left off more than a quarter of a century ago to create an extraordinary new world of spirits and forces--the characters, legend, and lore of all the Vampire Chronicles.

The novel opens with the vampire world in crisisvampires have been proliferating out of control; burnings have commenced all over the world, huge massacres similar to those carried out by Akasha in The Queen of the Damned Old vampires, roused from slumber in the earth are doing the bidding of a Voice commanding that they indiscriminately burn vampire-mavericks in cities from Paris and Mumbai to Hong Kong, Kyoto, and San Francisco.

As the novel moves from present-day New York and the West Coast to ancient Egypt, fourth century Carthage, 14th-century Rome, the Venice of the Renaissance, the worlds and beings of all the Vampire Chronicles-Louis de Pointe du Lac; the eternally young Armand, whose face is that of a Boticelli angel; Mekare and Maharet, Pandora and Flavius; David Talbot, vampire and ultimate fixer from the secret Talamasca; and Marius, the true Child of the Millennia; along with all the other new seductive, supernatural creatures-come together in this large, luxuriant, fiercely ambitious novel to ultimately rise up and seek out who-or what-the Voice is, and to discover the secret of what it desires and why And, at the book's center, the seemingly absent, curiously missing hero-wanderer, the dazzling, dangerous rebel-outlaw--the great hope of the Undead, the dazzling Prince Lestat

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Review:

Praise for Anne Rice's
PRINCE LESTAT
"[Rice] retakes her throne as Queen of the Damned . . . visceral and gritty . . . ["Prince Lestat"] infuses new life into the Vampire Chronicles and sets the stage for a new era.
-Elise de los Santos, "Chicago RedEye"
"No one does what Anne Rice does . . . Not only does she find ways--brilliant ways--to tease new narrative potential from old stories, she does so while acknowledging that those stories are already part of the other characters' psyches. I don't know of any other novelist doing that . . . she has not lost any of her flair for description, allowing us to experience the world the way her vampires do, with the sensory volume turned up to 11 . . . fun, sexy, and irresistible."
-"January Magazine"
"Irrepressively seductive."
-John Russell, "Next Magazine"
"Bloody marvelous . . . "Prince Lestat" is saving the undead from banality and overfamiliarity."
-Daniel D'Addario, "Time"
"Chilling."
-"Us Magazine"
"Anne Rice reminds us just how immense and rich with history her universe of poetic, morally questioning vampires is, and "Prince Lestat" serves as a palate cleanser to the hormone-soaked teen dramas of the past few years. It's nice to have a real grown-up back in the game."
-Cotton Codinha, "Elle"
"Ambitious...Rice never lost touch with the exuberant, often witty, and always fearless voice of irrepressible vampire Lestat de Lioncourt... Rice has offered us a tale of tremendous ambition, and she's absolutely delivered."
-Matthew Jackson, "BookPage"

"Bloody marvelous." --"Time
""Rice allows [her vampires] to do what they do best: wreak havoc and evoke terror. All while impeccably dressed." --"The Washington Post
"
"Reminds us just how immense and rich . . . Rice's universe of poetic, morally questioning vampires is." --"Elle"
"Rice never lost touch with the exuberant, often witty, and always fearless voice of irrepressible vampire Lestat de Lioncourt." --"BookPage
"
"Good, old-fashioned fanged fun." --"Kirkus Reviews
"
"The thinking-person's vampire story. . . . Reads like a house on fire." --"Bookreporter
""No one does what Anne Rice does . . . . Fun, sexy, and irresistible."" --January "magazine
"
""Irrepressively seductive."" --Next "magazine

"Bloody marvelous." "Time
" Rice allows [her vampires] to do what they do best: wreak havoc and evoke terror. All while impeccably dressed. "The Washington Post
"
Reminds us just how immense and rich . . .Rice s universe of poetic, morally questioning vampires is. "Elle"
Rice never lost touch with the exuberant, often witty, and always fearless voice of irrepressible vampire Lestat de Lioncourt. "BookPage
"
Good, old-fashioned fanged fun. "Kirkus Reviews
"
The thinking-person s vampire story. . . .Reads like a house on fire. "Bookreporter
" No one does what Anne Rice does . . . . Fun, sexy, and irresistible. " January "magazine
"
"Irrepressively seductive. " Next "magazine"

"Bloody marvelous." Time
Rice allows [her vampires] to do what they do best: wreak havoc and evoke terror. All while impeccably dressed. The Washington Post

Reminds us just how immense and rich . . .Rice s universe of poetic, morally questioning vampires is. Elle
Rice never lost touch with the exuberant, often witty, and always fearless voice of irrepressible vampire Lestat de Lioncourt. BookPage

Good, old-fashioned fanged fun. Kirkus Reviews

The thinking-person s vampire story. . . .Reads like a house on fire. Bookreporter
No one does what Anne Rice does . . . . Fun, sexy, and irresistible. January magazine

Irrepressively seductive. Next magazine

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"Bloody marvelous." --Time

"Rice allows [her vampires] to do what they do best: wreak havoc and evoke terror. All while impeccably dressed." --The Washington Post

"Reminds us just how immense and rich . . . Rice's universe of poetic, morally questioning vampires is." --Elle

"Rice never lost touch with the exuberant, often witty, and always fearless voice of irrepressible vampire Lestat de Lioncourt." --BookPage

"Good, old-fashioned fanged fun." --Kirkus Reviews

"The thinking-person's vampire story. . . . Reads like a house on fire." --Bookreporter

"No one does what Anne Rice does . . . . Fun, sexy, and irresistible." --January magazine

"Irrepressively seductive." --Next magazine

Book Description:

The Queen of the Undead is back, with her first Vampire Chronicle in fifteen years

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House LLC US
• Publication date: 1900
• ISBN 10: 1101872985
• ISBN 13: 9781101872987
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 577