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

The Tale of the Body Thief

The Vampire Chronicles

1st edition
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An edition of The Tale of the Body Thief (1992)

The Tale of the Body Thief

The Vampire Chronicles

1st edition
  • 4.06 ·
  • 18 Ratings
  • 59 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 26 Have read

In a new feat of hypnotic storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now classic Interview with the Vampire and continued with The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned.

Lestat speaks. Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals. For centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Lestat is alone. And suddenly all his vampire rationale--everything he has come to believe and feel safe with--is called into question. In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the danger-haunted years of his long existence.

The Tale of the Body Thief is told with the unique--and mesmerizing--passion, power, color, and invention that distinguish the novels of Anne Rice.
--front flap

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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English

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Nachtmahr. Ein Roman aus der Chronik der Vampire.
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The Tale of the Body Thief: The Vampire Chronicles
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Le voleur de corps
1995 04, Pocket, n/a
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Le voleur de corps: Chroniques des vampires
1994-02, Plon
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The Tale of the Body Thief: The Vampire Chronicles
1993, Penguin Books
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The Tale of the Body Thief: The Vampire Chronicles
1993-10, Ballantine Books
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1993, Atlantida
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The Tale of the Body Thief
1992, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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The Tale of the Body Thief: The Vampire Chronicles
1992, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover in English - 1st edition

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Edition Notes

Series
Vampire Chronicles
Copyright Date
1992

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Format
Hardcover

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23109196M
ISBN 10
0679405283
ISBN 13
9780679405283
OCLC/WorldCat
988500356
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0679405283
Library Thing
3448
Goodreads
159206

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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