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Interview with the Vampire
by Anne Rice
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Ballantine Books (1991-09-13)
ISBN: 0345337662
EAN: 9780345337665
Dewey Decimal #: 813.54
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
Release Date: 1991-09-13
SKU: 180
Condition: Good
Comments: Binding: Softcover. Condition: Good. Very small tear top of spine.
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Editorial Reviews
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Amazon.com
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. 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
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Product Description
Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force--a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses.
It is a novel only Anne Rice could write....
"Magnificent, compulsively readable."
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
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Customer Reviews
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vampire legend made real
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-08-28
Anne Rice's "Interview with a Vampire" is her first, and I think, best vampire tale. As such it is original, vibrant and haunting. An actual vampire is interviewed. He describes his transition from a mortal man to an immortal vampire and he describes his moral transition from a vampire who, initially, feasts only on 'undesireables' to one who will destroy literally anyone.
We see a fiend with a human outlook. We wonder how we, ourselves, would behave if we had the fortune [misfortune?] to be changed into a being with the remarkably positive trait of immortality with the unbelivably negative trait of hemo-cannibalism. Rice has answered part of the question.
Ron Braithwaite, author of novels--"Skull Rack" and "Hummingbird God"--on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico
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this is good stuff for the imagiantion
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-08-27
if you ove books that are obviously fake but feel so real you will love this book! when reading you will feel like all of the characters are real and that at any moment a vampire will come into your life and bite you, thats what i was hoping! :) if you want a thrilling book that will definately be in your top ten, get this right now!!!
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an instant classic
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-08-19
This is a lyrically dense book, very sensuous and beautifully written. And quite disturbing. Rice's love for New Orleans shines throughout and for the most part, it's a quite believable tale. It's one of my favorites.
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All too human immortals
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-07-28
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Louis's description of his transformation into the un-dead near the beginning of the book is worth the price alone. An intoxicating, revolutionary work.
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The movie is still better.
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-07-02
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
The book is a classic yes, but the movie is just better and more enjoyable overall.
The story of Louis is dark and depressing and.....brilliant.
Lestat is just an evil *&^%&.
Claudia isn't much better, I'm surprised Louis even survied a few days with these two depressing characters.
Neither of them have any idea of right or wrong, neither has any conscience about thier killings.
I guess that's why I liked Louis at first, at least he had some sence of right and wrong.
All in all, a masterpiece and the best and most logical place to start if you're new to the Vampire books.
Recommended!
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