About this Event
Leigh Bardugo, Christopher Rice, & Eric Shaw Quinn present the 50th anniversary edition of the spellbinding classic that started it all.
From Anne Rice, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, this dazzling special edition features a jacket with foil and embossing, blood-red sprayed edges, bespoke marbled endpapers, and never-before-seen bonus pages from the original manuscript, as well as an introduction by New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo and an afterword by New York Times bestselling author Christopher Rice in which he reveals never before discussed aspects of the novel’s history, as well as the emotional process by which he and Anne’s dear friend, Eric Shaw Quinn, produced a documentary and celebration of her life for a standing room only audience of AnneFans in New Orleans last year.
Here are the confessions of a vampire: a hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual story of Louis de Pointe du Lac’s first two hundred years as one of the living dead. We begin on the night when Louis, disaffected and reluctant heir to a Louisiana plantation, is turned into a vampire by Lestat. Radiant, petulant, and powerful, Lestat becomes Louis’ companion and urges him to embrace the hungers and feelings of vampirism: the detachment, the hardened will, the “superior” sensual pleasures. As Louis struggles to retain the last residue of human feeling within him, he discovers that he must commit the ultimate act: to break away from his creator and discover the new world to which he belongs—whatever the cost.
This is a story of danger and flight, of loyalty and treachery, of gaining humanity and losing it, and of the extraordinary power of the senses.
This is a ticketed event at Loyola's Roussel Auditorium. Tickets include one entry and one copy of Interview with the Vampire: 50th Anniversary Edition, to be handed out at check-in.
The book will be pre-signed by Leigh Bardugo (foreward) and Christopher Rice (afterword).
Questions? Email [email protected] or call us at (504) 895-2266
Event venue & nearby stays
Loyola's Roussell Performance Hall, 6301 Saint Charles Avenue, New Orleans, United States
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