Interview with the Vampire
Amazon.com Review While Rice has continued to investigate history, faith, and philosophy in subsequent Vampire novels (including The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch the Devil, and The Vampire Armand), Interview remains a treasured masterpiece. It is that rare work that blends a childlike fascination for the supernatural with a profound vision of the human condition. --Patrick O'Kelley From Library Journal Review The psychology of a vampire Anne Rice - the REAL Queen of the Damned BookProduct Details
Editorial Reviews
In the now-classic novel Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice refreshed the archetypal vampire myth for a late-20th-century audience. The story is ostensibly a simple one: having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoholic stupor. At his emotional nadir, he is confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. The two prey on innocents, give their "dark gift" to a young girl, and seek out others of their kind (notably the ancient vampire Armand) in Paris. But a summary of this story bypasses the central attractions of the novel. First and foremost, the method Rice chose to tell her tale--with Louis' first-person confession to a skeptical boy--transformed the vampire from a hideous predator into a highly sympathetic, seductive, and all-too-human figure. Second, by entering the experience of an immortal character, one raised with a deep Catholic faith, Rice was able to explore profound philosophical concerns--the nature of evil, the reality of death, and the limits of human perception--in ways not possible from the perspective of a more finite narrator.
Rice turned the vampire genre on its ear with this first novel (LJ 5/1/76), which evolved into one of the most popular series in recent history. Though the quality of the books has declined, this nonetheless is a marvelous, innovative, and literate tale of the longing for love and the search for redemption. This 20th-anniversary edition offers a trade-size paperback for a good price.
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Unrelentingly erotic ... sometimes beautiful, and always unforgettable. -- The Washington PostCustomer Reviews
The psychology of a vampire. No other vampire book dive as deep as Rice's. I loved Louis as the narrator. I much prefer the tortured anti-heros. Rice is very wordy and very detailed oriented. I came out of this book feeling like I knew more about Louis then some close friends. Louis is so vivid, dark, and brokenhearted the whole story, I always felt for him. I also like Louis' view of Lestat better than Lestat's view on himself.
This is the beginning of the Vampire Chronicles. What a wonderful series - not hokey, not based on teenage angst, not unrequited. This book is dark, it's sexy, it's exciting and sometimes violent. I hung on every word. No wonder they made a movie out of this (even if the choice of actors was a bit odd). This book made Anne Rice a genuine best selling author, and she followed this book with many more, following the lives of old and new vampires in the 'family'. Love the characters, love the personalities, love the interplay. Don't think you like the idea of vampires, or afraid of the potential for violence? OK. You're a wuss. Read 'Twilight'. Lame.
The story "Interview With a Vampire" was really good but the quality of the book was poor. When I opened the first page the cover fell off and I was worried this would happen with every page. In the end it cost me $7.00 with shipping. I should have bought a new one.
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