{"product_id":"the-vampire-armand","title":"The Vampire Armand","description":"In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic \u003ci\u003eInterview with the Vampire\u003c\/i\u003e, the first of The Vampire Chronicles, the novel that established its author worldwide as a magnificent storyteller and creator of magical realms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, we go with Armand across the centuries to the Kiev Rus of his boyhood - a ruined city under Mongol dominion - and to ancient Constantinople, where Tartar raiders sell him into slavery. And 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 vampiric blood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the novel 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.\r","brand":"Anne Rice","offers":[{"title":"Mass Market Paperbound","offer_id":44444108751084,"sku":"9780345434807","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780345434807.jpg?v=1708845676","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/the-vampire-armand","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}