Anne Rice

Memnoch the Devil Anne Rice

Jacket Description/Back: In Anne Rice's new novel, the Vampire Lestat - outsider, 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 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. Jacket Description/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. Biographical Note: ANNE RICE lives in New Orleans with her husband, the poet and painter Stan Rice, and their son, Christopher. "From the Paperback edition."Publisher Marketing: "STARTLING . . . FIENDISH . . . MEMNOCH'S TALE IS COMPELLING".--New York Daily News"Like Interview with the Vampire, Memnoch has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity. . . . Narrated by Rice's most cherished character, the vampire Lestat, Memnoch tells a tale as old as Scripture's legends and as modern as today's religious strife".--Rolling Stone"SENSUAL . . . BOLD, FAST-PACED".--USA Today"Rice has penned an ambitious close to this long-running series. . . . Fans will no doubt devour this".--The Washington Post Book World"MEMNOCH THE DEVIL OFFERS PASSAGES OF POETIC BRILLIANCE".--Playboy"[MEMNOCH] is one of Rice's most intriguing and sympathetic characters to date. . . . Rice ups the ante, taking Lestat where few writers have ventured: into heaven and hell itself. She carries it off in top form".--The Seattle Times Review Citations:

Booklist 06/01/1995 pg. 1684 (EAN 9780679441014, Hardcover)

Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/15/1995 pg. 58 (EAN 9780679441014, Hardcover)

Library Journal 06/15/1995 pg. 96 (EAN 9780679441014, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly 06/05/1995 pg. 51 (EAN 9780679441014, Hardcover)

Kirkus Reviews 05/15/1995 pg. 665 (EAN 9780679441014, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

New York Times 07/23/1995 pg. 14 (EAN 9780679441014, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/1996 pg. 65 (EAN 9780679441014, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2000 pg. 558 (EAN 9780679441014, Hardcover)

Library Journal 04/15/1995 (EAN 9780679441014, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 794 (EAN 9780679441014, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 769 (EAN 9780679441014, Hardcover)

Library Journal 10/01/1995 (EAN 9780679438328, Analog Audio Cassette)

New York Times 09/15/1996 pg. 44 (EAN 9780345389404, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Rice, Anne A. N. Roquelaure is the pseudonym for bestselling author Anne Rice, the author of 25 books. She lives in New Orleans.