Daniel who cannot bear his own aging, implores Armand for the “dark gift,” to be made immortal, but Armand desperately needs to hold onto Daniel who is his last link to the humanity he has forever lost: Their relationship, though unnatural in the extreme, is both breathlessly erotic and heart-breakingly sad. He becomes enamored of Daniel, a lovely young human lad and the “interviewer” of the first novel. One of Rice’s many splendid characters is Armand, a beautiful boy-vampire who has walked the Earth since the early Renaissance. Their immortality serves to heighten those concerns which have beguiled and befuddled humans for centuries. Rice’s vampires are natural philosophers. What lies beyond death? What is the nature of goodness? Is there meaning to life? But here these age-old enigmas are mulled over, puzzled through and furiously attacked, not by mere mortals, but by the blood-sucking undead. In all truth, the epic scope of this novel is mandated by the profound mysteries and timeless questions which Rice seeks to answer.
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