An edition of The Tale of the Body Thief (1992)

Il ladro di corpi

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1a ed. TEADUE. 11th printing

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An edition of The Tale of the Body Thief (1992)

Il ladro di corpi

romanzo

1a ed. TEADUE. 11th printing

by

  • ★★★★ 4.06 ·
  • 18 Ratings
  • 63 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 26 Have read

È la solitudine la «maledizione» che si è impadronita di Lestat, bello, malinconico e crudele principe del cupo universo dei vampiri. Sulla dolorosa onda di quella solitudine, Lestat ha accarezzato un bruciante desiderio: rinascere come mortale, liberarsi della sua condizione di non morto e tornare a essere vivo… C’è qualcuno che può soddisfare quel desiderio: l’ammaliante Raglan James, il Ladro di Corpi, che da tempo insegue Lestat e che, a sua volta, ambisce a diventare vampiro. A nulla varrà l’avvertimento di David Talbot, l’unico amico «umano» di Lestat, e di altre creature della notte: il patto sarà stipulato, scatenando un vortice inarrestabile di conseguenze – oscure, maligne, sconcertanti…
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TEA
Language
Italian
Pages
479

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Subjects
Horror fiction, Horror tales, Fiction, Vampires, Depression, suicide attempts, boredom, body swaps, pneumonia, psychics, kleptomania, cancer, immortality, Queen Elizabeth 2, Fiction, horror, Vampires, fiction, Lestat (fictitious character), fiction
People
Lestat, Claudia, Akesha, David Talbot, Talamasca Caste, Raglan James, Gretchen, Marius de Romanus, Louis de Pointe du Lac
Places
Gobi Desert, England, Washington D.C., Florida, New Orleans, French Quarter, Rio de Janeiro
Times
1760

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Nachtmahr. Ein Roman aus der Chronik der Vampire.
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Le voleur de corps
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1992, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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1992, Random House Audio
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Edition Notes

Translation of: The tale of the body thief.

"Le cronache dei vampiri"--Cover.

In Italian.

Series
The Vampire Chronicles, #4
Copyright Date
2001

Contributors

Translator
Cristina Messori

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
479 pages ;
Number of pages
479

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26335668M
Internet Archive
illadrodicorpile00anne
ISBN 10
8850203187
ISBN 13
9788850203185
OCLC/WorldCat
224534404
Amazon ID (ASIN)
8850203187
Google
h0C1AAAACAAJ
Goodreads
9700334

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Returning to Lestat as the main character, the fourth in the Vampire Chronicles series finds Lestat impulsive and careless in the pursuit of what he wants: a serial killer in Southern Florida. Lestat is surrounded by mortals in this tale, an a new worthy counterpoint character to Lestat is introduced, Raglan James. James is a vampire hunter, and a formidable adversary for Lestat. James offers Lestat the opportunity to switch bodies temporarily with a young mortal. Against Louis' advice, Lestat accepts and discovers he hates everything about being human. He also finds that James has disappeared with Lestat's powerful vampire body. Louis refuses to help Lestat become a vampire again, and he turns to another mortal to help him trick James into switching souls, and giving up Lestat's body.

Centering on the themes of body and soul and soul migration, The Tale of the Body Thief is a novel of action.
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