title: The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles, Book II)
author:  Anne Rice 
description: Frightening, sensual . . . Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature. . . . To read her is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time, to become lightheaded as if our blood is slowly being drained away.<b><i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></b><br /> <br /> Fiercely ambitious, nothing less than a complete unnatural history of vampires.<b><i>The Village Voice</i></b><br /> <i></i><br /> Brilliant . . . its undead characters are utterly alive.<b><i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br /> <i></i><br /> Luxuriantly created and richly told.<b><i>The Cleveland Plain Dealer</i></b>
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  The Vampire Lestat
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Anne Rice
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is dedicated with love to Stan Rice, Karen O'Brien, and Allen Daviau
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "WONDERFUL . . . THE BEST NEWS IS THAT THIS IS THE
  
  
  MIDDLE BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES OF THE VAMPIRES. "
  
  
  Playboy
  
  
  
  
  
  "Where Rice excels is in evoking the elusive nature of vampiric sexuality, the
  urgency of the quest for self- knowledge, the thin line between arrogance and
  terror, the loneliness of what is necessarily a solitary existence. " Houston
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  "Lestat is more than a sequel to Interview; it's also a prequel and a
  supplement, swallowing the earlier novel whole.... Lestat is fiercely
  ambitious, nothing less than a complete unnatural history of vampires.... In
  Anne Rice's hands, vampires have come of age. They now have a history and a
  vital new tradition; instead of creeping about in charnel houses, they stand
  center stage, with a thousand spotlights on them. And they smile straight at