Interview With the Vampire [Livre audio] [Anglais] [Cassette]

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 --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

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.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Broché .

Unrelentingly erotic ... sometimes beautiful, and always unforgettable. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

2 cassettes / 3 hours
Read by F. Murray Abraham
Also available on Compact Disk

Interview with the Vampire is a novel that evokes the brilliance, the decadence, the horror of The Vampire's world - as he pours out the erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead. It is the first of the famous "Chronicles of the Vampires" by Anne Rice.

"From the beginning we are seduced, hypnotized by the voice of the vampire."
--Chicago Tribune

"A supernatural thriller raised to the level of literature."
-- Philadelphia Inquirer

"If you surrender, you will find that you have surrender to enchantment, as if in a voluptuous dream."
-- Boston Globe

Abraham seems to inhabit the Vampire as he pours out the erotically charged confessions of his first 200 years as one of the living dead. 2 cassettes.

It seems amazing to me that I didn't get around to reading this book until years after it had been first published, especially because I'm a big vampire fan. I was working in a bookstore and finally picked it up...and couldn't put it down until I'd finished it. Interview is one of those books that stays with you long after you've read it. I still have moments were something will remind me of it and I'll sit there thinking about a particular scene or character. It was only a few months after reading this, and tearing through the sequel, as well, that I went to work for Ballantine and got the chance to sell Anne Rice's books as well as read them. I guess it was fate.

-Lisa Congelosi, Ballantine Sales Rep. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

Anne Rice is the author of nineteen books. She lives in New Orleans with her husband, the poet and painter Stan Rice.

About the Reader
F. Murray Abraham is a critically acclaimed actor who was the recipient of the academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Salieri in the motion picture Amadeus.