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The
Vampire Lestat, whom we first met in Interview with the
Vampire, has his own story to tell. Anne Rice's second
book in The Vampire Chronicles follows Lestat through the
ages as he conducts his own search for his origins and to
find meaning in what has happened to him.
Unlike
the cruel and dark Lestat we saw in Interview, this
book reveals a sympathetic figure with his own blend of morality,
romanticism, and bravery. Lestat has been asleep for fifty-five
years and awakes entranced with the modern world. He becomes
a superstar rock musician and millions of fans fall under
his spell. Breaking the vampire code of silence, Lestat reveals
himself to the world in the hopes that the world's immortals
will rise and join together to solve the mystery of their,
and his, existence.
The
novel moves effortlessly back in time to eighteenth century
France, the world of Lestat's childhood aristocracy, as he
tells his story. From his childhood struggles against his
father through free and easy eighteenth century Paris as an
actor, and his making into a vampire.
We
travel with Lestat as he searches for other vampires, sometimes
alone, sometimes with the haunting Gabrielle, sometimes with
the devastating Nicolas. Lestat circles Europe searching for
his origins, and for clues to the birth of the vampire, but
he finds that the seminal answers elude him.
Through
his travels and searches, Lestat also makes enemies of vampires
who are terrified that his wanderings and searchings will
disrupt their coexistence with mortals, or that he will attempt
to rule them all. And when Lestat finds the very first vampires,
he finds his seminal truths, but also unleashes ancient forces
and the wrath of his enemies. Lestat, hunter, has become the
hunted.
Source:
annerice.com
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