In Anne Rice\'s extraordinary novel, the Vampire Lestat--outsides, canny monster, hero-wanderer--is at last offered the chance to be redeemed.
About the Author: ANNE Rice lives in New Orleans with her husband, the poet and painter Stan Rice, and their son, Christopher..
In this, her most daring and darkest novel, she takes us, with Lestat, into the mythical world that is most important to us--into the realms of our own theology.
In the first four Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summoned up for us worlds that are fantastic and distant, making them as resonant, real, and immediate as our own.
And finally, he must decide which, if either, he will serve.
He must decide if he can believe in the Devil or in God.
He is taken like the ancient prophets into the heavenly realm and is ushered into Purgatory.
He is invited to be a witness at the Creation.
He is snatched from the world itself by the mysterious Memnoch, who claims to be the Devil.
While torn between his vampire passions and his overwhelming love for Dora, Lestat is confronted by the most dangerous of adversaries he has yet known.
Through the whiteness Lestat is searching for Dora, the beautiful and charismatic daughter of a drug lord, the woman who arouses Lestat\'s tenderness as no mortal ever has.
The city is blanketed in snow.
We are in New York.
He is brought into direct confrontation with both God and the Devil, and into the land of Death.
In Anne Rice\'s extraordinary novel, the Vampire Lestat--outsides, canny monster, hero-wanderer--is at last offered the chance to be redeemed