The Vampire Lestat"Ah, the taste and feel of blood when all passion and greed is sharpened in that one desire!" The Vampire Lestat introduces us to Lestat, a vampire who is anything but the conventional undead. Lestat is truly alive, vivid, ecstatic, and stagestruck. In his extravagant tale, he plunges from the lasciviousness of eighteenth century Paris to the demonic Egypt of prehistory; from the fin de sicle New Orleans to the frenetic twentieth century world of rock