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    "description": "#1 New York Times Bestselling author - Surrender to fiction's greatest creature of the night - Book II of the Vampire Chronicles<br></br><br></br>The vampire hero of Anne Rice's enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying exsitence. His is a mesmerizing story-passionate, complex, and thrilling.<br></br><br></br>Praise for The Vampire Lestat<br></br>  <br></br> \"Frightening, sensual . . . Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature. . . . To read her is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time, to become lightheaded as if our blood is slowly being drained away.\"-San Francisco Chronicle<br></br>  <br></br>\"Fiercely ambitious, nothing less than a complete unnatural history of vampires.\"-The Village Voice<br></br>  <br></br> \"Brilliant . . . its undead characters are utterly alive.\"-The New York Times Book Review<br></br>  <br></br>\"Luxuriantly created and richly told.\"-The Cleveland Plain Dealer",
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