Vampire Chronicles #2 - Originally Published October, 1985
Random House
August 2004
Featuring: Lestat; Gabrielle
550 pages ISBN: 0345476883 Hardcover Add to Wish List
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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