Books : The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles, Book II)
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by: Anne Rice
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345313867
ISBN: 0345313860
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: September 12, 1986
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: September 12, 1986
Sales Rank: 18902
Studio: Ballantine Books
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Product Description:
Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate, and thrilling.
'Frightening, sensual.'
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Amazon.com Review:
After the spectacular debut of Interview with the Vampire in 1976, Anne Rice put aside her vampires to explore other literary interests--Italian castrati in Cry to Heaven and the Free People of Color in The Feast of All Saints. But Lestat, the mischievous creator of Louis in Interview, finally emerged to tell his own story in the 1985 sequel, The Vampire Lestat.
As with the first book in the series, the novel begins with a frame narrative. After over a half century underground, Lestat awakens in the 1980s to the cacophony of electronic sounds and images that characterizes 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 own autobiography. The remainder of the novel purports to be that autobiography: the vampire traces his mortal youth as the son of a marquis in pre-Revolutionary France, his initiation into vampirism at the hands of Magnus, and his quest for the ultimate origins of his undead species.
While very different from the first novel in the Vampire Chronicles, The Vampire Lestat has proved to be the foundation for a broader range of narratives than is possible from Louis's brooding, passive perspective. The character of Lestat is one of Rice's most complex and popular literary alter egos, and his Faustian strivings have a mythopoeic resonance that links the novel to a grand tradition of spiritual and supernatural fiction. --Patrick O'Kelley
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - once again, I don't get it
I'll be honest. I didn't care for Interview with the Vampire. I didn't like Rice's version of vampire life and their mythos. I didn't enjoy the love/hate/love/HATE relationship the characters had with each other and themselves.
I decided to give lestat a try, a last hurrah for Ann Rice books if you will.
This will be the last Ann Rice book I read.
Normally I don't put spoilers in my reviews but I can't help voice my issues with the book without them. So ... Read More
Rating:  - My favorite of the series!
In this book, you get to learn of Lestat's past, and how he became a vampire. The writing style of this series (the first 3 anyway), is what makes them my favorite vampire novels.
Rating:  - Small book
The book was fine, except that the description did not sound like a small book and I sent it back because I wanted a regular sized book.
Rating: - Lestat gets to tell his story.
Second in the Vampire Chronicles.
Lestat, the misunderstood vampire who created Louis in Interview with the Vampire, tells his own story here. We see, from Lestat's perspective, many of the same events described by Louis in the first book.
While recovering from Claudia's attack, Lestat rests underground for many years. He is finally drawn back into life in the 1980's. He is entranced by the music of a garage band named Satan's Night Out. He rises, introduces himself to ... Read More
Rating: - A Gothic Tale with A Modern Perspective
The Vampire Lestat is an enigmatic, gripping character iconic of the modern era: a man, however immortal, searching for not only a meaning that does not exist but an origin that defies everything anyone's ever said. A paradoxical being, he murders shamelessly but will only kill the villain. He rebels and yet is the iconoclast of many. He is everything Louis said about him in Interview with The Vampire, but he is so much more.
Lestat is the most compelling antihero I've had the pleasure ... Read More
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