The Vampire Armand
(Rice, Anne)
Armand, eternally fixed in the body of a fourteen year old Italian boy, with the complextion of a bottecelli angel, first appears in the first of the Rice's Vampire Chronicles (Interview with a Vampire).
This book follows Armand across the centuries to the Kiev Rus of his childhood--a ruined city under Mongol dominion--and to ancient Constantinople, where he is sold as a slave by the Tartar raiders. 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 eternal life and torment.
An attack on Marius' home in Venice alters life for Armand, literally, forever. He and the other mortal boys that Marius had taken under his wing are taken by a blood thirsty group, and there they await their fate.
We see how he escapes becomes the leader of the children of darkness, meets Lestat and enters the strange world of the theatre. Some interesting twists come to light surrounding the memorable and emotional death of the child vampire, Claudia, in his lustful pursuit of a companion in the form of Louis.
As the novel anticipatingly 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.
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- Interview With A Vampire
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