Anne Rice</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b>In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its publication</b><br><br>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.<br><br><b>Look for a special preview of Anne Rice??s?<i>Prince Lestat</i>?in the back of the book.?The Vampire Chronicles continue in?<i>Prince Lestat and?the Realms of Atlantis???</i>available for pre-order now.</b><br><br><b>Praise for <i>Interview with the Vampire</i></b><br> ?<br> ??A magnificent?? compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth?the education of the vampire.??<b>?<i>Chicago Tribune</i></b><br> ?<br> ??Unrelentingly erotic . . . sometimes beautiful?? and always un"b>?<i>Washington Post</i></b><br> ?<br> ??If you surrender and go with her . . . you have surrendered to enchantment?? as in a voluptuous dream.??<b>?<i>Boston Globe</i></b><br> <i>?</i><br> ??A chilling?? thought-provoking tale?? beautifully frightening?? sensuous?? and utterly unnerving.??<b>?<i>Hartford Courant</i></b></br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>In the now-classic novel <I>Interview with the Vampire</I>?? 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 "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 fig