Summary
From the rear cover
In Anne Rice's extraordinary novel, the Vampire Lestat--outsides, canny monster, hero-wanderer--is at last offered the chance to be redeemed.
He is brought into direct confrontation with both God and the Devil, and into the land of Death. We are in New York. The city is blanketed in snow. Through the whiteness Lestat is searching for Dora, the beautiful and charismatic daughter of a drug lord, the woman who arouses Lestat's tenderness as no mortal ever has.
While torn between his vampire passions and his overwhelming love for Dora, Lestat is confronted by the most dangerous of adversaries he has yet known. He is snatched from the world itself by the mysterious Memnoch, who claims to be the Devil. He is invited to be a witness at the Creation. He is taken like the ancient prophets into the heavenly realm and is ushered into Purgatory.
He must decide if he can believe in the Devil or in God. And finally, he must decide which, if either, he will serve. In the first four Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summoned up for us worlds that are fantastic and distant, making them as resonant, real, and immediate as our own. In this, her most daring and darkest novel, she takes us, with Lestat, into the mythical world that is most important to us--into the realms of our own theology.
From the jacket flap
In Anne Rice's extraordinary novel, the Vampire Lestat--outsides, canny monster, hero-wanderer--is at last offered the chance to be redeemed.
He is brought into direct confrontation with both God and the Devil, and into the land of Death. We are in New York. The city is blanketed in snow. Through the whiteness Lestat is searching for Dora, the beautiful and charismatic daughter of a drug lord, the woman who arouses Lestat's tenderness as no mortal ever has.
While torn between his vampire passions and his overwhelming love for Dora, Lestat is confronted by the most dangerous of adversaries he has yet known. He is snatched from the world itself by the mysterious Memnoch, who claims to be the Devil. He is invited to be a witness at the Creation. He is taken like the ancient prophets into the heavenly realm and is ushered into Purgatory.
He must decide if he can believe in the Devil or in God. And finally, he must decide which, if either, he will serve. In the first four Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summoned up for us worlds that are fantastic and distant, making them as resonant, real, and immediate as our own. In this, her most daring and darkest novel, she takes us, with Lestat, into the mythical world that is most important to us--into the realms of our own theology.
Details
- Title Memnoch the Devil
- Author Anne Rice
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st/1st
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, New York
- Date 1995-07-03
- ISBN 9780679441014 / 0679441018
- Weight 1.65 lbs (0.75 kg)
- Dimensions 9.57 x 6.67 x 1.37 in (24.31 x 16.94 x 3.48 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Horror fiction, Vampires
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95077866
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Excerpt
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Citations
- Booklist, 06/01/1995, Page 1684
- Kirkus Reviews, 05/15/1995, Page 665
- Library Journal, 04/15/1995, Page 0
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 04/15/1995, Page 58
- New York Times, 07/23/1995, Page 14
- Publishers Weekly, 06/05/1995, Page 51
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