The Tale of the Body Thief
Language: English
Published by Knopf Canada, Toronto, 1992
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used



Seller: Green Oak Books and Collectibles, Airdrie, AB, CanadaGreen Oak Books and Collectibles
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octavo First Canadian edition, first printing. The dust jacket is pristine as is the book itself. One of the author’s Vampire Chronicles series. Protected in a polyester jacket. From the inside front flap: “, In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the danger-haunted years of his long existence.”.
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- Title
- The Tale of the Body Thief
- Author
- Anne Rice
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada, Toronto
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0394223179
- ISBN 13
- 9780394223179
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Series
- Book 4 of 13: Vampire Chronicles
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Review
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
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Green Oak Books and Collectibles
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