The vampire lestat by anne rice6/29/2023 ![]() It was some time later that I understood just how much so: Rice had written the book in part as a testament to her young daughter, Michele, who died in August 1972 of granulocytic leukemia (Rice had a dream before the diagnosis that her daughter would die of a blood aliment). I had just lost somebody in my family when I first read it, and this was a book that seemed to emit loss. ![]() It was imaginative in its construction and narrative voice - the worst that could be said was that it spawned a legion of mediocre vampire volumes (and movies and TV series) that couldn’t match its originality and depth, and those imitators persist to this day - but what I liked best about it was that it was a painful read. ![]() Interview with the Vampire, author Anne Rice’s first volume in her Vampire Chronicles, had been among my favorite novels since I first read it in 1977 (I’ve read it many times since). ![]()
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