![]() ![]() ![]() He carries us back to the crucial moment in a dark New Orleans street when he finds the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her, struggling against the last residue of human feeling within him. ![]() to the years when, moving away from his final human ties under the tutelage of the hated yet necessary Lestat, he gradually embraces the habits, hungers, feelings of vampirism: the detachment, the hardened will, the "superior" sensual pleasures. learning first to sustain himself on the blood of cocks and rats caught in the raffish streets of New Orleans, then on the blood of human beings. carrying us back to the night when he departed human existence as heir-young, romantic, cultivated-to a great Louisiana plantation, and was inducted by the radiant and sinister Lestat into the other, the "endless," life. We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks-as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its publication ![]()
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