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 chilhood artistocracy, 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.
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