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Prince Lestat is a novel by American writer Anne Rice, the eleventh in The Vampire Chronicles series, published on October 28, 2014. [1] [2] Rice had originally stated the novel Blood Canticle was meant to conclude the series, but in March 2014 she had announced a forthcoming novel that would be a sequel to the first five books and the start of ...
Oct 28, 2014 · Prince Lestat is the eleventh book in The Vampire Chronicles series by Anne Rice, a best-selling author of gothic and supernatural fiction. The novel follows the title character as he tries to unite the vampires against a mysterious threat that commands them to burn their fledglings.
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Jul 7, 2015 · "Prince Lestat" took this expectation and laughed, as if to say, "Silly, sentimental mortals!" First opening the book, we instead we get a "Blood Genesis" revisiting Maharet's tale of Akasha, the spirit Amel, the origin of the vampire, and how in the events of "Queen of the Damned," Mekare killed Akasha and took into herself the "Sacred Core ...
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Prince Lestat is the eleventh installment in The Vampire Chronicles penned by Anne Rice. It was released on October 28, 2014.
"What can we do but reach for the embrace that must now contain both heaven and hell: our doom again and again and again..." -
[Anne] Rice once agains summons up the irresistible spirit-world of the oldest and most powerful forces of the night, invisible beings unleashed on an unsuspecting world able to take blood from humans, in a long-awaited return to the extraordinary world of The Vampire Chronicles and the uniquely seductive Queen of the Damned, a long-awaited novel that picks up where The Vampire Lestat left off more than a quarter of a century ago to create an extraordinary new world of spirits and forces - the characters, legend, and lore of The Vampire Chronicles.
The novel opens with the vampire world in crisis... Vampires have been proliferating out of control; burnings have commenced all over the world, huge massacres similar to those carried out by Akasha in The Queen of the Damned... Old vampires, roused from slumber in the Earth, are doing the bidding of a Voice commanding that they indiscriminately burn vampire-mavericks in cities from Paris and Mumbai to Hong Kong, Kyoto, and San Francisco.
As the novel moves from present-day New York and the West Coast to ancient Egypt, fourth-century Carthage, fourteenth-century Rome, the Venice of the Renaissance, the worlds and beings of all the Vampire Chronicles - Louis de Pointe du Lac; the eternally young Armand, whose face is that of a Boticelli angel; Mekare and Maharet, Pandora and Flavius; David Talbot, vampire and ultimate fixer from the secret Talamasca; and Marius, the true Child of the Millennia; along with all the other new seductive, supernatural creatures - come together in this large, luxuriant, fiercely ambitious novel to ultimately rise up and seek out who - or what - the Voice is, and to discover the secret of what it desires and why...
•Anne Rice announced the publication of Prince Lestat on The Dinner Party Show hosted by her son and novelist, Christopher Rice, and Eric Shaw Quinn in Episode 64 Lestat Lives!
•According to Anne Rice, this installment of The Vampire Chronicles is a true sequel to The Queen of the Damned in that it brings together the various characters introduced in the series as the latter did, weaving together their lives in the present-day. However, it does not discount later books in the series, such as The Tale of the Body Thief and Memnoch The Devil, as some have understood it.
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Lestat was born on November 7, 1760, as the seventh son of the marquis d'Auvergne in the Auvergne region of France. Only two of his brothers survive to adulthood. While they are technically aristocrats, the de Lioncourt family's fortune has been squandered, and they live in relative poverty in their medieval castle.
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Jul 2, 2015 · Prince Lestat. Anne Rice. Penguin Random House, Jul 2, 2015 - Fiction - 480 pages. After a 15 year wait LESTAT is back in Anne Rice's long awaited new Vampire Chronicles novel. The vampire world is in crisis - their kind have been proliferating out of control and, thanks to technologies undreamed of in previous centuries, they can communicate ...
