num_pages: 599
description: 'Ah, the taste and feel of blood when all passion and greed is sharpened in that one desire!' a vampire - but very much not the conventional undead, for Lestat is the truly alive. Lestat is vivid, ecstatic, stagestruck, and in his extravagant story he plunges from the lasciviousness of eighteenth-century Paris to the demonic Egypt of prehistory; from fin-de-siecle New Orleans to the frenetic twentieth-century world of rock superstardom - as, pursued by the living and the dead, he searches across time for the secret of his own dark immortality.
language: English
title: The Vampire Lestat
titlecomplete: The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)
characters: Marius de Romanus, Akasha, Armand, Louis de Pointe du Lac, Gabrielle de Lioncourt, Lestat de Lioncourt, Nicolas de Lenfrent
genres: Historical Fiction, Gothic, Horror, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Adult, Supernatural, Fiction, Vampires, Paranormal
ratings_count: 196106
places: Paris, Egypt, New Orleans, Louisiana
series: The Vampire Chronicles
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Novel, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Time Warner