Ah the taste & feel of blood when all passion & greed is sharpened in that one desire! Lestat: a vampire
- but very much not the conventional undead for Lestat is the truly alive. Lestat is vivid ecstatic stagestruck & in his extravagant story he plunges from the lasciviousness of eighteenth-century Paris to the demonic Egypt of prehistory; from fin-de-siecle New Orleans to the frenetic twentieth-century world of rock superstardom
- as pursued by the living & the dead he searches across time for the secret of his own dark immortality.