{"product_id":"9780804194754","title":"Prince Lestat (Vampire Chronicles Series #11)","description":"\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What can we do but reach for the embrace that must now contain both heaven and hell: our doom again and again and again…\" —from \u003ci\u003eThe Vampire Lestat\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":"Diversified Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030405071088,"sku":"9780804194754","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780804194754_p0.jpg?v=1763738052","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780804194754","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}