The Vampire Armand The Vampire Chronicles #6 Hardcover Knopf Publishing Group 1998

The Vampire Armand The Vampire Chronicles #6 Hardcover Knopf Publishing Group 1998

In this 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. The reader will travel 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 the reader sees 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 today's New Orleans, the reader sees its eternally vulnerable and romantic hero forced to choose between his twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul.