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3 CDs / 4 hours Read by Alfred Molina Also available abridged and unabridged on cassette In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire, the first of The Vampire Chronicles, the novel that established its author worldwide as a magnificent storyteller and creator of magical realms. Now, we go with Armand across the centuries to the Kiev Rus of his boyhood - a ruined city under Mongol dominion - and to ancient Constantinople, where Tartar raiders sell him into slavery. And in a magnificent palazzo in the Venice of the Renaissance we see him emotionally and intellectually in thrall to the great vampire Marius, who masquerades among humankind as a mysterious, reclusive painter and who will bestow upon Armand the gift of vampiric blood. As the novel races to its climax, moving through scenes of luxury and elegance, of ambush, fire, and devil worship to nineteenth-century Paris and today's New Orleans, we see its eternally vulnerable and romantic hero forced to choose between his twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul.

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PublisherRandom House Audio Publishing Group

ISBN-100375404333

ISBN-139780375404337

eBay Product ID (ePID)1196595

Product Key Features

Publication Year1998

TopicHorror, General

Book TitleVampire Armand

LanguageEnglish

GenreFiction

AuthorAnne Rice

Book SeriesThe Vampire Chronicles

FormatCompact Disc

Dimensions

Item Height0.9in.

Item Length5.6in.

Item Weight6.6 Oz

Item Width4.9in.

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"VIVID, EVOCATIVE." --USA Today "ARMAND'S LIFE UNFOLDS IN RICH, VELVETY PROSE. . . . THIS IS A SUMPTUOUS ADDITION TO THE SERIES." --Library Journal "ANNE RICE FANS WILL NO DOUBT BE THRILLED. . . . [Armand] until now has played a small role in the Vampire Chronicles. Here he assumes center stage, relating his five hundred years of life to fledgling vampire David Talbot, who plays amanuensis to Armand as he did to Lestat. . . . It's not just the epic plot but Rice's voluptuary worldview that's the main attraction. . . . Elegant narrative has always been her hallmark. . . . Rice is equally effective in showing how Armand eventually loses his religion and becomes 'the vagabond angel child of Satan,' living under the Paris cemeteries and founding the Grand Guignol-ish Theatre des Vampires. In the twentieth century, a rehabilitated Armand regains his faith but falls in love with two children who save his life. By the conclusion of Armand, the pupil has become the mentor." --The Washington Post "A FASCINATING AND DAZZLING HISTORICAL TAPESTRY . . . BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN, INCREDIBLY ABSORBING." --Booklist "LAVISHLY POETIC . . . THE FINAL SCENE IS A STUNNER." --Publishers Weekly

Series Volume NumberBK. 6

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Edition DescriptionAbridged Edition