The Tale Of The Body Thief: The Vampire Chronicles

Rice, Anne

ISBN 10: 014013204X / ISBN 13: 9780140132045

Published by Penguin, London, 1993

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607 pages. 350 grams. This book is in good unmarked condition with light wear to cover. 'Vampire-hero, rockstar and seducer of millions, Lestat is an immortal extraordinaire.But Lestat yearns to be reborn a mortal. Tormented to the depths of his vampire soul he wanders aimlessly across the globe, from Amsterdam to the Amazon jungle, until he meets the one being who can grant him his wish. He is the Body Thief, more sinister and evil than any daemon. But when Lestat surrenders his vampire body he discovers what he'd so long ago forgotten: the awkwardness and anguish of being human.Erotic, terrifying, enthralling, The Tale of the Body Thief is the fourth volume in Anne Rice's bestselling series The Vampire Chronicles.' 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction, Horror.; ISBN: 014013204X. ISBN/EAN: 9780140132045. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001785.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Tale Of The Body Thief: The Vampire Chronicles
• Publisher: Penguin, London
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 014013204X
• ISBN 13: 9780140132045
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction, Horror.

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Synopsis

THE TALE OF THE BODY THIEF

Review

It's been said that Vladimir Nabokov's best novels are the ones he wrote after starting a failed novel. Anne Rice wrote The Body Thief, the fourth thrilling episode of her Vampire Chronicles, right after she spent a long time poring over that most romantic of horror novels, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, to research a novel Rice abandoned about an artificial man. Perhaps as a result of Shelley's influence, The Body Thief is far more psychologically penetrating than its predecessors, with a laser-like focus on a single tormented soul. Oh, we meet some wild new characters, and Rice's toothsome vampire-hero Lestat zooms around the globe--as is his magical habit--from Miami to the Gobi desert, but he's in such despair that he trades his immortal body to a con man named Raglan James, who offers him in return two days of strictly mortal bliss.

Lestat has always had a faulty impulse-control valve, and it gets him in truly intriguing trouble this time. On the plus side, he gets to experience romance with a nun and orange juice--"thick like blood, but full of sweetness." But Lestat is horrified by an uncommon cold, and his toilet training proves traumatic. He's also got to catch Raglan James, who has no intention of giving up his dishonestly acquired new superpowered body. Lestat enlists the help of David Talbot, a mortal in the Talamasca, a secret society of immortal watchers described in Queen of the Damned.

The swapping of bodies and supernatural stories is choice, and there's even a moral: never give a bloodsucker an even break. --Tim Appelo