Story within story within story, Rice constructs a convoluted tale that begins in the present as Lestat awakes from a long period of sleep to find himself in the 1980s. But she quickly flashes back to the eighteenth century to tell of Lestat's beginnings as the son of an impoverished French nobleman. She tells his story chronologically until he becomes a vampire and meets the vampire Armand. After an unfriendly confrontation, Armand tells his story to Lestat......
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