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Autor: RICE ANNE
Editorial: BALLANTINE BOOKS
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ISBN: 9780345434807
Reseña: See the difference read #1 bestselling author Anne Rice in Large Print * About Large Print All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typeface In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand - eternally young with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire the first of The Vampire Chronicles the novel that established its author worldwide as a magnificent storyteller and creator of magical realms. Now we go with Armand across the centuries to the Kiev Rus of his boyhood - a ruined city under Mongol dominion - and to ancient Constantinople where Tartar raiders sell him into slavery. And in a magnificent palazzo in the Venice of the Renaissance we see him emotionally and intellectually in thrall to the great vampire Marius who masquerades among humankind as a mysterious reclusive painter and who will bestow upon Armand the gift of vampiric blood. As the novel races to its climax moving through scenes of luxury and elegance of ambush fire and devil worship to nineteenth-century Paris and todays New Orleans we see its eternally vulnerable and romantic hero forced to choose between his twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul.
