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Interview with the Vampire

Anniversary edition

By Anne Rice

(54)

| Hardcover | 9780394498218

Book Description

The time is now.

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. . .

He speaks quietly, plainly, even gently . . . carryingContinue

The time is now.

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. . .

He speaks quietly, plainly, even gently . . . 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 . . . 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 . . . 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.

He carries us back to the crucial moment in a dark New Orleans street when he finds the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her, struggling against the last residue of human feeling within him . . .

We see how Claudia in turn is made a vampire--all her passion and intelligence trapped forever in the body of a small child--and how they arrive at their passionate and dangerous alliance, their French Quarter life of opulence: delicate Grecian statues, Chinese vases, crystal chandeliers, a butler, a maid, a stone nymph in the hidden garden court . . . night curving into night with their vampire senses heightened to the beauty of the world, thirsting for the beauty of death--a constant stream of vulnerable strangers awaiting them below . . .

We see them joined against the envious, dangerous Lestat, embarking on a perilous search across Europe for others like themselves, desperate to discover the world they belong to, the ways of survival, to know what they are and why, where they came from, what their future can be . . .

We follow them across Austria and Transylvania, encountering their kind in forms beyond their wildest imagining . . . to Paris, where footsteps behind them, in exact rhythm with their own, steer them to the doors of the Théâtre des Vampires--the beautiful, lewd, and febrile mime theatre whose posters of penny-dreadful vampires at once mask and reveal the horror within . . . to their meeting with the eerily magnetic Armand, who brings them, at last, into intimacy with a whole brilliant and decadent society of vampires, an intimacy that becomes sudden terror when they are compelled to confront what they have feared and fled . . .

In its unceasing flow of spellbinding storytelling, of danger and flight, of loyalty and treachery, Interview with the Vampire bears witness of a literary imagination of the first order.

6 Reviews

  • 1 person find this helpful

    This series started off wonderfully, but as it dragged on it got to be more about sex and politics than about being a vampire and it got less interesting.

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    ― Camille said on Apr 12, 2007 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Reading with G ❤

    My best friend G is a huge fan of IWTV and we're currently reading this together, so far I'm loving it. It's much different than let's say Twilight or the Sookie Stackhouse series but that's all I have to compare it to so far because these are my first vampire novels.

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    ― Mel. :) said on Feb 22, 2009 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Classic Vampire Tale

    Anne Rice modernized the erotic vampire tale when she published Interview with the Vampire. I read this in college and decided with all the new vampire hype to read it again. At first, I was disappointed because I remember it being mesmerizing. Halfway through, I remembered why I loved it so much ... (continue)

    Anne Rice modernized the erotic vampire tale when she published Interview with the Vampire. I read this in college and decided with all the new vampire hype to read it again. At first, I was disappointed because I remember it being mesmerizing. Halfway through, I remembered why I loved it so much. Louis and Lestat's relationship created much of the storyline but the addition of Armand at the end brings the story to a closing point. Claudia is the epitome of a spoiled brat but you cannot help but empathize with her position. I am on to the next one.

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    ― Bibliophile said on Feb 20, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Vampire To Its Own Sophistication

    This is a very unique Vampire story that put the Vampires with flesh and blood that they cannot escape. Their sufferings are aggravated through ages and compounded from their immortality.

    Rice has redefined the Vampire's characters mixed with love and hate. Each one of them has inherited his/h ... (continue)

    This is a very unique Vampire story that put the Vampires with flesh and blood that they cannot escape. Their sufferings are aggravated through ages and compounded from their immortality.

    Rice has redefined the Vampire's characters mixed with love and hate. Each one of them has inherited his/her own pre-vampire life as a baggage and been struggling to adjust the status quo.

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    ― artie said on Jan 8, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • First in the series - The Vampire Chronicles

    Just my opinion, but I really think that this is the book that started the whole paranormal fiction craze. When I picked it up, I really had know idea what to expect, but I had read Bram Stoker's Dracula a few years before and really enjoyed it. This was such a "fun" take on vampires, at least at ... (continue)

    Just my opinion, but I really think that this is the book that started the whole paranormal fiction craze. When I picked it up, I really had know idea what to expect, but I had read Bram Stoker's Dracula a few years before and really enjoyed it. This was such a "fun" take on vampires, at least at the time. I think I was pretty much hooked from the get-go.

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    ― Bashful said on Aug 25, 2008 | Add your feedback

  • I'm always fancy about "immortal life". Cool, isn't it?

    However, it's definitely not I'm looking for, as life will be too sad!

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    ― Reb Jovi said on Aug 25, 2007 | Add your feedback

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