- Vampires, Fiction, History, Horror fiction
The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded cafe, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius.
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Grave, earnest, epic and nostalgic.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Anne Rice
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 353
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus, Random House Audio, Edicions 62
- Editions
- 42
- Language
- cat, Italian, German, heb
- ISBN
- 9780375402289
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“Not twenty minutes has passed since you left me here in the cafe, since I said No to your request, that I would never write out for you the story of my mortal life, how I became a vampire-how I came upon Marius only years after he had lost his human life.”
Anne Rice was born on 04 October 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She was the second of four daughters of Irish Catholic parents, Katherine "Kay" Allen and Howard O'Brien. In 1961, she married Stan Rice, who passed away in 2002. They had two children, Christopher (1978) and Michele (1966-1972). She started to published in 1970s, and became a published phenomenon. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history.
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