#1 New York Times Bestselling author - Surrender to fiction's greatest creature of the night - Book II of the Vampire Chronicles
The vampire hero of Anne Rice's enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying exsitence. His is a mesmerizing story-passionate, complex, and thrilling.
Praise for The Vampire Lestat
'Frightening, sensual . . . 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 lightheaded as if our blood is slowly being drained away.'-San Francisco Chronicle
'Fiercely ambitious, nothing less than a complete unnatural history of vampires.'-The Village Voice
'Brilliant . . . its undead characters are utterly alive.'-The New York Times Book Review
'Luxuriantly created and richly told.'-The Cleveland Plain Dealer
