The Tale of the Body Thief
Language: English
Published by Knopf Canada, Toronto, 1992
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Green Oak Books and Collectibles, Airdrie, AB, CanadaGreen Oak Books and Collectibles
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Condition: Used - As new
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octavo First Canadian edition, first printing. The dust jacket is pristine as is the book itself. One of the author’s Vampire Chronicles series. Protected in a polyester jacket. From the inside front flap: “, In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the danger-haunted years of his long existence.”.
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- Title
- The Tale of the Body Thief
- Author
- Anne Rice
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada, Toronto
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0394223179
- ISBN 13
- 9780394223179
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Series
- Book 4 of 13: Vampire Chronicles
The burden of immortality is weighing upon the vampire Lestat. In a desperate bid to end his everlasting life he attempts suicide by flying into the sunrise above the Gobi desert. The attempt fails but it intensifies his desire to be human again.
Just as Lestat resigns himself to the body of a killer he is approached by the body thief, a creature who covets Lestat's monstrous power and can give him what he wants: a mortal body.
Lestat, ignoring the warnings of those he trusts, agrees to surrender his vampire body for a week. But the body thief vanishes. Chaos ensues and the newly mortal Lestat is left to discover what he had forgotten: the suffering, the weakness and the fragility of a living life.
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Review
"An enchanting tale" (Publishers Weekly)
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Green Oak Books and Collectibles
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