Blood Canticle

Anne Rice continues her astonishing Vampire Chronicles with the story of Lestat's passionate quest for redemption, goodness and the love of Rowan Mayfair.

Here are all the brilliantly conceived principal characters that make up Anne Rice's world of vampires and witches: Mona Mayfair, who's come to Blackwood Farm to die and is, instead, brought into the realm of the undead... Rowan Mayfair, brilliant neurosurgeon and witch, who finds herself dangerously drawn to Lestat... her husband Michael Curry, hero of the Mayfair Chronicles, who seeks Lestat's help with the temporary madness of his wife... Patsy, country-western singer, who returns to avenge her death at the hands of her son, Quinn Blackwood.

And here is the spirit of Julien Mayfair, guardian of the family, determined to torment Lestat eternally for what he has done to Mona... the riddle of the five-thousand-year-old Taltos, involving Mona's child... and, at the book's centre, the Vampire Lestat, once the epitome of evil and now - following the transformation set in motion with Memnoch the Devil - struggling with his vampirism and yearning for goodness, purity and love as he tends with ghosts, legends, secrets and the mystery of the Taltos, and as he wrestles with the fate of his beloved Rowan Mayfair.


	This time Lestat is back with a vengeance, and in thrall to Rowan Mayfair. In this latest mesmerising volume of The Vampire Chronicles, two irresistible visions collide and merge as Lestat moves through the world of Blackwood Farm and the Mayfair Witches. Here is the inimitable voice - mocking and seductive, cool but full of passion - that wooed millions of readers, as the Vampire Lestat takes up once more the thrilling story of his own struggle between the lust for blood and the quest for love, between gratification and redemption.	Blood Canticle ~ Chatto & Windus 2003 (UK)
	Here too are the brilliantly conceieved characters that make up Rice's unique pantheon: Ophelia-like Mona Mayfair, taken over into the realm of the undead... her ghostly uncle, Julien Mayfair, who torments Lestat... Rowan Mayfair, witch and neurosurgeon, who attracts spirits to herself, casts spells on others and finds herself dangerously drawn to Lestat... Rowans husband, Michael Curry, hero of The Mayfair Chronicles, seeking Lestat's help... Ash Templeton, a 5,000 year old Taltos, whoses genes live on in the Mayfairs... Patsy, country and western singer, killed by Quinn Blackwood and dumped in a swamp... and at the book's heart, the Vampire Lestat himself, demon and angel, drawn to kill but tempted by goodness. Now he fights to save Patsy's ghost from the dark realm of the Earthbound, to uncover the mystery of the Taltos in their tropical island hideaway, and to decide the fate of Rowan Mayfair. Blood Canticle ~ Chatto & Windus 2003 (UK)
	Blood Canticle ~ Knopf 2003 (US)	Anne Rice continues her astonishing Vampire Chronicles with the story of Lestat's passionate quest for redemption, goodness and the love of Rowan Mayfair. Here are all the brilliantly conceived principal characters that make up Anne Rice's world of vampires and witches: Mona Mayfair, who's come to Blackwood Farm to die and is, instead, brought into the realm of the undead... Rowan Mayfair, brilliant neurosurgeon and witch, who finds herself dangerously drawn to Lestat... her husband Michael Curry, hero of the Mayfair Chronicles, who seeks Lestat's help with the temporary madness of his wife... Patsy, country-western singer, who returns to avenge her death at the hands of her son, Quinn Blackwood.
	And here is the spirit of Julien Mayfair, guardian of the family, determined to torment Lestat eternally for what he has done to Mona... the riddle of the five-thousand-year-old Taltos, involving Mona's child... and, at the book's centre, the Vampire Lestat, once the epitome of evil and now - following the transformation set in motion with Memnoch the Devil - struggling with his vampirism and yearning for goodness, purity and love as he tends with ghosts, legends, secrets and the mystery of the Taltos, and as he wrestles with the fate of his beloved Rowan Mayfair. Blood Canticle ~ Knopf 2003 (US)
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