An edition of The Tale of the Body Thief (1992)

The Tale of the Body Thief

The Vampire Chronicles

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An edition of The Tale of the Body Thief (1992)

The Tale of the Body Thief

The Vampire Chronicles

by

  • ★★★★ 4.06 ·
  • 18 Ratings
  • 63 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 26 Have read

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 should 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 . . .
--back cover

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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
607

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Subjects
Horror fiction, Horror tales, Fiction, Vampires, Depression, suicide attempts, boredom, body swaps, pneumonia, psychics, kleptomania, cancer, immortality, Queen Elizabeth 2, Fiction, horror, Vampires, fiction, Lestat (fictitious character), fiction
People
Lestat, Claudia, Akesha, David Talbot, Talamasca Caste, Raglan James, Gretchen, Marius de Romanus, Louis de Pointe du Lac
Places
Gobi Desert, England, Washington D.C., Florida, New Orleans, French Quarter, Rio de Janeiro
Times
1760

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1992, Random House Audio
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London, England

Edition Notes

First published Chatto & Windus, 1992.
UK

Series
The Vampire chronicles -- 4
Copyright Date
1992

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.54

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
607p. ;
Number of pages
607

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18426581M
ISBN 10
014013204X
ISBN 13
9780140132045
OCLC/WorldCat
1054014535
Amazon ID (ASIN)
014013204X
Google
vyuBXBYjIVkC
Library Thing
3448
Goodreads
106448

Work Description

Returning to Lestat as the main character, the fourth in the Vampire Chronicles series finds Lestat impulsive and careless in the pursuit of what he wants: a serial killer in Southern Florida. Lestat is surrounded by mortals in this tale, an a new worthy counterpoint character to Lestat is introduced, Raglan James. James is a vampire hunter, and a formidable adversary for Lestat. James offers Lestat the opportunity to switch bodies temporarily with a young mortal. Against Louis' advice, Lestat accepts and discovers he hates everything about being human. He also finds that James has disappeared with Lestat's powerful vampire body. Louis refuses to help Lestat become a vampire again, and he turns to another mortal to help him trick James into switching souls, and giving up Lestat's body.

Centering on the themes of body and soul and soul migration, The Tale of the Body Thief is a novel of action.
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The Vampire Lestat here.
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