{"product_id":"2940169180404","title":"Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning departure, a surprising and compelling return¿From Anne Rice, perennial best seller, single-handed reinventor of the vampire cosmology--a new, exhilarating novel, a deepening of her vampire mythology, and a chillingly hypnotic mystery-thriller.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat can we do but reach for the embrace that must now contain both heaven and hell: our doom again and again and again¿\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRice once again summons up the irresistible spirit-world of the oldest and most powerful forces of the night, invisible beings unleashed on an unsuspecting world able to take blood from humans, in a long-awaited return to the extraordinary world of the Vampire Chronicles and the uniquely seductive \u003ci\u003eQueen of the Damned\u003c\/i\u003e (\"mesmerizing\" --\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e), a long-awaited novel that picks up where \u003ci\u003eThe Vampire Lestat\u003c\/i\u003e (\"brilliant¿its undead characters are utterly alive\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) left off more than a quarter of a century ago to create an extraordinary new world of spirits and forces--the characters, legend, and lore of all the Vampire Chronicles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel opens with the vampire world in crisis¿vampires have been proliferating out of control; burnings have commenced all over the world, huge massacres similar to those carried out by Akasha in \u003ci\u003eThe Queen of the Damned\u003c\/i\u003e¿Old vampires, roused from slumber in the earth are doing the bidding of a Voice commanding that they indiscriminately burn vampire-mavericks in cities from Paris and Mumbai to Hong Kong, Kyoto, and San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the novel moves from present-day New York and the West Coast to ancient Egypt, fourth century Carthage, 14th-century Rome, the Venice of the Renaissance, the worlds and beings of all the Vampire Chronicles-Louis de Pointe du Lac; the eternally young Armand, whose face is that of a Boticelli angel; Mekare and Maharet, Pandora and Flavius; David Talbot, vampire and ultimate fixer from the secret Talamasca; and Marius, the true Child of the Millennia; along with all the other new seductive, supernatural creatures-come together in this large, luxuriant, fiercely ambitious novel to ultimately rise up and seek out who-or what-the Voice is, and to discover the secret of what it desires and why¿\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd, at the book's center, the seemingly absent, curiously missing hero-wanderer, the dazzling, dangerous rebel-outlaw--the great hope of the Undead, the dazzling Prince Lestat¿\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47156059701488,"sku":"2940169180404","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169180404_p0.jpg?v=1769894336","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169180404","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}