New Releases by Anne Rice

Lui qui se vantait de ne croire ni à Dieu ni au Diable doit, cette fois, se déterminer. Choisir son camp. Ou choisir de ne pas choisir... Vampire impie, ivre d''amour, de sensualité et de métaphysique, Lestat cherche dans les rues enneigées de New York Dora, une jeune prédicatrice aussi belle que charismatique. Fille d''un des gros bonnets de la drogue, elle est peut-être, n''ayons pas peur du mot, une... sainte. Déchiré entre ses appétits vampiriques et sa passion débordante pour la jeune femme, Lestat ne se préoccupe pas autant qu''il le devrait de cette étrange impression d''être observé. Et se trouve bientôt confronté aux adversaires les plus énigmatiques qu''il ait jamais connus.

After 6,000 years of horrifying stillness, Akash, mother of all vampires and Queen of the Damned, has risen from her sleep to let loose the powers of the night. But her monstrous plan for ruling the worlds of the living and the undead must be stopped before she destroys mankind, and it falls to the evil vampire Lestat to fight her all-encompassing evil - for it is he who challenged her power by waking her from sleep.

Lestat recounts the story of how he became a vampire in eighteenth-century France

Analyse : Roman fantastique.

#1 New York Times Bestselling author - Surrender to fiction''s greatest creature of the night - Book II of the Vampire Chronicles The vampire hero of Anne Rice’s enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying exsitence. His is a mesmerizing story—passionate, complex, and thrilling. Praise for The Vampire Lestat “Frightening, sensual . . . Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature. . . . To read her is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time, to become lightheaded as if our blood is slowly being drained away.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Fiercely ambitious, nothing less than a complete unnatural history of vampires.”—The Village Voice “Brilliant . . . its undead characters are utterly alive.”—The New York Times Book Review “Luxuriantly created and richly told.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer

In the days before the Civil War, there lived a Louisiana people unique in Southern histroy. Though descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. Called the Free People of Color, this dazzling historical novel chronicles the lives of four of them--men and women caught perilously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression, passion and pain.