The Vampire Lestat (edit title)

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Vampire Lestat 2 days ago.

• Added a contributor: Anne Rice: (Primary Author)

mirela L edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of The Vampire Lestat Friday, November 20 2009.

• Added: Country boy kills wolves and as a result, gets immortality to pester others.

Jen edited the table of contents of The Vampire Lestat Monday, October 19 2009.

• Downtown - Saturday Night in the Twentieth Century 1984

  The Early Education and Adventures of The Vampire Lestat
  Part I: Lelio Rising
  Part II: The Legacy of Magnus
  Part III: Viaticum for the Marquise
  Part IV: The Children of Darkness
  Part V: The Vampire Armand
  Part VI: On the Devil´s Road from Paris to Cairo
  Part VII: Ancient Magic, Ancient Mysteries

  Epilogue - Interview with the Vampire

  Dionysus in San Francisco 1985

Timothy Gray approved Julia K’s request to change the contributors of The Vampire Lestat Tuesday, October 6 2009.

• Edited a contributor: Anne(Author)Anne Rice: (Primary NoneAuthor)
• Removed a contributor: Anne RICE: (Primary None)
• Removed a contributor: Anne Rice: (Primary None)
• Removed a contributor: Anne Rice: (Primary Author)
• Removed a contributor: Anne Rice: (Primary None)
• Removed a contributor: Anne RICE: (Primary None)
• Removed a contributor: Anne Rice: (Primary None)
• Removed a contributor: Anne Rice: (Primary None)

Julia K edited the contributors of The Vampire Lestat Friday, October 2 2009.

• Edited a contributor: Anne(Author)Anne Rice: (Primary NoneAuthor)
• Removed a contributor: Anne RICE: (Primary None)
• Removed a contributor: Anne Rice: (Primary None)
• Removed a contributor: Anne Rice: (Primary Author)
• Removed a contributor: Anne Rice: (Primary None)
• Removed a contributor: Anne RICE: (Primary None)
• Removed a contributor: Anne Rice: (Primary None)
• Removed a contributor: Anne Rice: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Vampire Lestat Thursday, October 1 2009.

• Added a contributor: Anne(Author) Rice: (Primary None)
• Added a contributor: Anne Rice: (Primary None)
• Added a contributor: Anne Rice: (Primary None)
• Added a contributor: Anne RICE: (Primary None)
• Added a contributor: Anne RICE: (Primary None)
• Added a contributor: Anne Rice: (Primary None)
• Added a contributor: Anne Rice: (Primary None)

Kevin approved ’s request to combine 23 books, including The Vampire Lestat, Thursday, September 24 2009.

submitted a request to combine 23 books, including The Vampire Lestat, Thursday, September 24 2009.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Vampire Lestat Friday, September 11 2009.

• I AM THE VAMPIRE LESTAT.LESTAT. I'M IMMORTAL.

Shelfari edited the summary of The Vampire Lestat Friday, September 11 2009.

• Set in the late 18th century to the late 1980s, the story follows the 200 year long life of the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, and his rise from humble beginnings as an impoverished aristocrat in the country side of France to the city of Paris to become a vain and arrogant Vampire. After escaping his family and running off to Paris with his friend and confidante Nicholas (Nicknamed Nicki by Lestat), Lestat is bitten by the rogue elder vampire Magnus who orphans him on the night he is made. He abandons Nicki for fear of causing him harm, and shuns contact with his loved ones, until one day his mother, Gabrielle, arrives in town. Gabrielle is dying, and in order to save her, Lestat bites her, transforming her into his first companion.

  The pair are antagonized by a coven of more "traditional""traditional" vampires living in the nearby cemetery Les Innocents. This coven, led by the vampire Armand, are convinced that all vampires must worship Satan and do his work on Earth; terrifying their human victims, dressing in rags, and returning to crypts at night. Armand and his coven kidnap Nicki in order to force a confrontation with Lestat and Gabrielle, but when Lestat demonstrates to them that vampires can easily co-exist with humans and live comfortably among them, the coven dissolves, leaving Armand distraught and alone. Nicki, however, is now aware of the world of vampires, and feels betrayed by Lestat. Lestat bites Nicki, turning him into a vampire, but he takes to his new lifestyle poorly and rejects Lestat, instead banding together with some of the dissolved cemetery coven to form the Théâtre des Vampires. Lestat then begins a worldwide search for the vampire Marius, a wise and ancient vampire who he learns of from Armand, in an attempt to find out the history of the vampires.

  Lestat eventually parts ways with Gabrielle, due to irreconcilable differences in their natures - Gabrielle yearns for desolate spaces and loves nature, while Lestat is perpetually drawn to humankind. He eventually finds the fabled Marius, who teaches him much about the origins of the vampire species and Marius's own past. He also reveals his secret, one he refused to unveil even to his former protege Armand. He is the guardian of Those Who Must Be Kept, a pair of immobile vampires of unbelievable strength and power. These two are named Akasha and Enkil, and are the original vampires from whom all others are descended, but over the millennia they have lapsed into stillness and hardly ever move or communicate. They must be protected, because any harm done to Akasha and Enkil is also done to all other living vampires.

  From Marius's island in Greece, Lestat travels to New Orleans. After the events detailed in Interview with the Vampire, he "goes"goes into the earth"earth" again in 1929. In 1984, Lestat emerges to become a rock star with a mortal band that consists of Alex, Larry and Tough Cookie. He writes a manuscript entitled The Vampire Lestat (which comprises the bulk of the actual novel), and publishes it, thereby using his new found fame to reveal all the secrets of the vampire world. With the eyes of the world on him, Lestat seeks to start a war. Just before the night of the band's unveiling concert, Lestat reunites with Louis, who fills him in on recent events in the vampire world, including the new system of meeting grounds known as the Vampire Connection and Lestat's own danger as a pariah among vampires.

  The book ends on a cliffhanger after Lestat's debut concert in San Francisco, and leads directly into the third volume, The Queen of the Damned.

  source: Wikipedia