书名：The Vampire Lestat 吸血鬼莱斯特

作者：Anne Rice

出版社名称：Ballantine Books

出版时间：2007

语种：英文 

ISBN：9780345313867

商品尺寸：10.6 x 2.4 x 17.4 cm

包装：简装

页数：482

★这是纯正、高贵的吸血鬼故事； ★安妮•赖斯——吸血鬼传奇的女王作家，吸血鬼文学的偶像式前辈； ★吸血鬼文学史上的经典，深深影响了20世纪的哥特文化。 安妮·赖斯（Anne Rice）是美国当代著名的小说家之一，有“吸血鬼之母”之称。她的小说以生动描写恐怖情节而著称，并发展成恢弘的“吸血鬼编年史”系列。安妮•赖斯的作品复活了吸血鬼类型小说，并极大丰富了其文学品格，成为此类型小说创作史上难以超过的典范。 本书The Vampire Lestat《吸血鬼莱斯特》为“吸血鬼编年史”系列的第2部小说，也是继《夜访吸血鬼》之后的经典作品。 这是一部寓意丰富的幻想小说，渗透着对人类心灵和思想的深刻透视。作者借非现实世界的描述，来表现现实世界的真实，从吸血鬼的内心去开掘人性深处的奥秘。 媒体评论：“恐怖，纵情，一场魔幻盛宴……安妮·赖斯在文学殿堂里永生；她的文字令人眩晕，好似在史诗的经纬间穿梭，又仿佛体内的血液正在被渐渐抽干。”——《旧金山纪事报》 “现在，吸血鬼莱斯特苏醒了。他那磅礴的力量让我们头晕目眩，魂萦梦牵……莱特斯永生不朽！”——《休斯顿邮报》  “《夜访吸血鬼》的绝妙延续……莱斯特，安妮·赖斯思想深处丰富源泉的产物。”——《堪萨斯城星报》#1 New York Times Bestselling author - Surrender to fiction's greatest creature of the night - Book II of the Vampire ChroniclesThe 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

本书以18世纪末的新奥尔良的时空背景为叙事原点，上下挪移，横越法国大革命时期的混乱失序、中世纪的阴沉动荡、罗马时代的狂欢飨宴，直逼古埃及王朝的残酷壮丽全景，编织出一幅纵横历史，上至远古，下至20世纪末的群魔绣帷，承载了超自然国度的奢靡、绝望与狂梦，古老的吸血鬼故事从此开始……

安妮•赖斯（1941- ），生于美国新奥尔良，五岁的女儿死于白血病后，她写出《夜访吸血鬼》，出版后成为畅销书，并发展成恢弘的“吸血鬼编年史”系列。她的作品以生动描写恐怖情节而著称，小说的主题多为历史背景下人的离群索居及对自我的追求，小说中的人物总是现实社会或非现实社会中孤立的群体。 Anne Rice is the author of internationally bestselling books including 'The Vampire Chronicles' (from Interview with the Vampire to Blood Canticle), her 'Mayfair Witches' sequence, Blackwood Farm and Blood Canticle. She lives in Rancho Mirage, California.

I AM THE VAMPIRE LESTAT. I’M IMMORTAL. MORE or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire—these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not. I’m six feet tall, which was fairly impressive in the 1780s when I was a young mortal man. It’s not bad now. I have thick blond hair, not quite shoulder length, and rather curly, which appears white under fluorescent light. My eyes are gray, but they absorb the colors blue or violet easily from surfaces around them. And I have a fairly short narrow nose, and a mouth that is well shaped but just a little too big for my face. It can look very mean, or extremely generous, my mouth. It always looks sensual. But emotions and attitudes are always reflected in my entire expression. I have a continuously animated face. My vampire nature reveals itself in extremely white and highly reflective skin that has to be powdered down for cameras of any kind. And if I’m starved for blood I look like a perfect horror— skin shrunken, veins like ropes over the contours of my bones. But I don’t let that happen now. And the only consistent mdication that I am not human is my fingernails. It’s the same with all vampires. Our fingernails look like glass. And some people notice that when they don’t notice anything else. Right now I am what America calls a Rock Superstar. My first album has sold 4 million copies. I’m going to San Francisco for the first spot on a nationwide concert tour that will take my band from coast to coast. MW, the rock music cable channel, has been playing my video clips night and day for two weeks. They’re also being shown in England on ‘1op of the Pops” and on the Continent, probably in some parts of Asia, and in Japan. Video cassettes of the whole series of clips are selling worldwide. I am also the author of an autobiography which was published last week. Regarding my English—the language I use in my auto- biography—I first learned it from a flatboat men who came down the Mississippi to New Orleans about two hundred years ago. 1 learned more after that from the English language writers—everybody from Shakespeare through Mark Twain to H. Rider Haggard, whom I read as the decades passed. The final infusion I received from the detective stories of the early twentieth century in the Black Mask magazine. The adventures of Sam Spade by Dashiell Hammett in Black Mask were the last stories I read before I went literally and figuratively underground.