Blood and Gold (First Edition)

Rice, Anne

ISBN 10: 0679454497 / ISBN 13: 9780679454496

Published by Knopf, New York, 2001

About this Item

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2001. First edition, stated. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Quarter black cloth over black paper-covered boards; spine lettered in gilt. A tight, clean copy with publisher?s original price ($26.95) intact on front jacket flap. 8vo, 471 pp. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. The eighth volume in Anne Rice?s Vampire Chronicles. The Vampire Chronicles in publication order: Interview with the Vampire (1976); The Vampire Lestat (1985); The Queen of the Damned (1988); The Tale of the Body Thief (1992); Memnoch the Devil (1995); The Vampire Armand (1998); Merrick (2000); Blood and Gold (2001); Blackwood Farm (2002); Blood Canticle (2003); Prince Lestat (2014); Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (2016); and Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat (2018).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blood and Gold (First Edition)
• Publisher: Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679454497
• ISBN 13: 9780679454496
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Vampire Chronicles continue as the great vampire Marius returns.

The golden-haired Marius, true Child of the Millennia, once mentor to The Vampire Lestat, always and forever the conscientious foe of the Evil Doer, reveals in his own intense yet inti-
mate voice the secrets of his two-thousand-year existence.

Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, kidnapped and made a “blood god” by the Druids, Marius becomes the embittered protector of Akasha and Enkil, Queen and King of the vampires, in whom the core of the supernatural race resides.

We follow him through his heartbreaking abandonment of the vampire Pandora. Through him we see the fall of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine and the horrific sack of the Eternal City itself at the hands of the Visigoths.

Bravely, Marius seeks a new civilization in the midst of glittering Constantinople, only to meet with the blood drinker Eudoxia. We see him ultimately returning to his beloved Italy, where after the horrors of the Black Death, he is restored by the beauty of the Renaissance. We see him become a painter living dangerously
yet happily among mortals, giving his heart to the great Botticelli, to the bewitching courtesan Bianca, and to the mysterious young apprentice Armand.

Moving from Rome to Florence, Venice, and Dresden, and to the English castle of the secret scholarly order of the Talamasca, the novel reaches its dramatic finale in our own time, deep in the jungle where Marius, having told his life story, seeks some measure of justice from the oldest vampires in the world.

About the Author

ANNE RICE is the author of thirty-seven books. She died in 2021.