Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941) is an American author of metaphysical gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotica. She is perhaps best known for her popular and influential series of novels, The Vampire Chronicles, revolving around the central character of Lestat. Books from The Vampire Chronicles were the subject of two film adaptations, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles in 1994, and Queen of the Damned in 2002.
Anne Rice (Nova Orleans, 4 de Outubro de 1941) é uma escritora norte-americana, autora de séries de terror e fantasia. Em seus livros ela invariavelmente apresenta seus vampiros como indivíduos com suas paixões, teorias, sentimentos, defeitos e qualidades como os seres humanos mas com a diferença de lutarem pela sua sobrevivência através do sangue de suas vítimas e sua própria existência, que para alguns deles, é um fardo a ser carregado através das décadas, séculos e até milênios.
Anchor Books
Language: English
Published in 2010, first Anchor Books mass-market edition.
Contains the novel Angel Time by Anne Rice in 371 pages and an excerpt from Of Love and Evil by Anne Rice in 12 pages.
"It's the present day. Toby O'Dare - aka Lucky the Fox - is a contract killer on assignment once again. He's a souless soul, a dead man walking. His nightmarish world of lone and lethal missions is disrupted when a mysterious stranger, a seraph, offers a him a chance to save rather than destroy lives.
O'Dare, who long ago dreamt of being a priest, seixes hi chance. Now he is carried back through the ages to 13th-century England, to dark realms where children suddenly die or disappear, and accusations of ritual murder have been made against Jews. Here O'Dare begins his perilous quest for salvation, a journey of danger and flight, loyalty and betrayal, selflessness and love."
Ballantine Books
Language: English
Published in 2003, first domestic mass-market edition.
Contains the novel Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice in 626 pages.
"Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious dining rooms, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip to the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgänger, a spirit known as Goblin. When Quinn is made a vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, Goblin becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself. Desperate, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the specter that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp - and to the secrets it holds..."
Ballantine Books
Language: English
Published in 2006, Ballantine Books mass-market edition.
Contains the novel Christ The Lord by Anne Rice in 350 pages.
"With the Holy Land in turmoil, seven-year old Jesus and his family leave Egypt for the dangerous road home to Jerusalem. As they travel, the boy tries to unlock the secret of his birth and comprehend his terrifying power to work miracles. Anne Rice's dazzling, kaleidoscopic novel, based on the gospels and the most respected New Testament scholarship, summons up the voice, the presence, and the worlds of Jesus, allowing him to tell his own story as he struggles to grasp the holy purpose of his life."
Ballantine Books
Language: English
Published in 1999, first Ballantine Books edition.
Contains the novel Pandora by Anne Rice in 344 pages and an excerpt from Vittorio, the Vampire.
"The title character is a highborn woman of Augustan Rome who later names herself after the Pandora of mythology, opening her own box of surprises. Sitting in a modern-day Paris café in the aftermath of a fresh kill, the vampire Pandora accepts the challenge of recounting her history and immediately sets to work, filling the blank pages of an elegant leatherbound notebook... A wealth of narrative twists and period detail."
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