to the years when, moving away from his final human ties under the tutelage of the hated yet necessary Lestat, he gradually embraces the habits, hungers, feelings of vampirism: the detachment, the hardened will, the 'superior' sensual pleasures. learning first to sustain himself on the blood of cocks and rats caught in the raffish streets of New Orleans, then on the blood of human beings. carrying us back to the night when he departed human existence as heir-young, romantic, cultivated-to a great Louisiana plantation, and was inducted by the radiant and sinister Lestat into the other, the 'endless,' life. We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks-as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead. The inspiration for the hit television series.From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, 'a magnificent, compulsively readable thriller.Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth-the education of the vampire” (Chicago Tribune).
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