04588cam a2200409 4500 240270801 TxAuBib 20140811120000.0 ||||||s2002||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780345464538 0345464532 B004SOVAEY Amazon 27ce127d-209d-43d0-a970-afc27fc286e6 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 153713 24092 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Rice, Anne, 1941- The Vampire Armand [Libby eBook] : The Vampire Chronicles, Book 6. Random House Publishing Group, 2002. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2038kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>See the difference, read #1 bestselling author Anne Rice in Large Print<br /> <br /></p> <ul> <li>About Large Print<br /> All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typeface<br /> <br /> In the latest 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. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic <i>Interview with the Vampire</i>, the first of The Vampire Chronicles, the novel that established its author worldwide as a magnificent storyteller and creator of magical realms.<br /> <br /> Now, we go 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 we see 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.<br /> <br /> 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, we see its eternally vulnerable and romantic hero forced to choose between his twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul.<br /> <br /> <i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i></li> </ul>. "ANNE RICE FANS WILL NO DOUBT BE THRILLED. . . . [Armand] until now has played a small role in the Vampire Chronicles. Here he assumes center stage, relating his five hundred years of life to fledgling vampire David Talbot, who plays amanuensis to Armand as he did to Lestat. . . . It's not just the epic plot but Rice's voluptuary worldview that's the main attraction. . . . Elegant narrative has always been her hallmark. . . . Rice is equally effective in showing how Armand eventually loses his religion and becomes 'the vagabond angel child of Satan,' living under the Paris cemeteries and founding the Grand Guignol-ish Theatre des Vampires. In the twentieth century, a rehabilitated Armand regains his faith but falls in love with two children who save his life. By the conclusion of Armand, the pupil has become the mentor.". The Washington Post. "ARMAND'S LIFE UNFOLDS IN RICH, VELVETY PROSE. . . . THIS IS A SUMPTUOUS ADDITION TO THE SERIES.". Library Journal. "LAVISHLY POETIC . . . THE FINAL SCENE IS A STUNNER.". Publishers Weekly. Fiction. Horror. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-11 10:13:24. http://slc.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=27ce127d-209d-43d0-a970-afc27fc286e6 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/27C/E12/7D/VampireArmandTheVampireChroniclesSeri9780345464538.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=27CE127D-209D-43D0-A970-AFC27FC286E6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/27C/E12/7D/VampireArmandTheVampireChroniclesSeri9780345464538.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=27CE127D-209D-43D0-A970-AFC27FC286E6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/27C/E12/7D/VampireArmandTheVampireChroniclesSeri9780345464538.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=27CE127D-209D-43D0-A970-AFC27FC286E6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)