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Written by Anne Rice - Audio book performed by Alfred Molina - Abridged Fiction - CASSETTES - 4 hours

Publisher, Random House (1998)

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 20 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 19th-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.

Library Journal says: A sumptuous addition to the series. . .the most satisfying in years.

Publishers Weekly says: Rice offers exquisite details of erotic romps and political intrigues. . .This is a lavishly poetic recital. . .The final scene is a stunner.

Booklist says: A fascinating and dazzling historical tapestry, a beautifully written, incredibly absorbing tale.