{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand\u2013eternally 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 Interview with the Vampire, the first of The Vampire Chronicles, the novel that established its author worldwide as a magnificent storyteller and creator of magical realms.\r\n\r\nNow, we go with Armand across the centuries to the Kiev Rus of his boyhood\u2013a ruined city under Mongol dominion\u2013and 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.\r\n\r\nAs 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\u2019s 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\n--jacket"}, "identifiers": {"google": ["kT4gAQAAIAAJ"], "librarything": ["11491"], "goodreads": ["333707"], "canadian_national_library_archive": ["c98-93 264-X"], "wikidata": ["Q126707381"]}, "title": "The Vampire Armand", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL39486A"}], "publish_date": "1998", "series": ["The Vampire Chronicles"], "covers": [10701748, -1], "local_id": ["urn:sfpl:31223108313314", "urn:sfpl:31223055919998", "urn:sfpl:31223074529893", "urn:bwbsku:O6-DOV-427"], "ia_loaded_id": ["vampirearmand000rice"], "uri_descriptions": ["Contributor biographical information", "Sample text", "Publisher description"], "edition_name": "1st Trade Edition", "source_records": ["marc:marc_records_scriblio_net/part27.dat:67578897:1225", "ia:vampirearmand000rice", "marc:marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary/sfpl_chq_2018_12_24_run02.mrc:168420388:2364", "marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part27.utf8:10344161:1225", "ia:vampirearmand0000rice", "bwb:9780679454472", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2020-07-30", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-005.mrc:237803345:2264", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_006.bib.mrc:313084241:3872"], "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "subjects": ["Vampires -- Fiction", "Renaissance -- Fiction", "Kievan Rus -- Fiction", "Paris (France) -- Fiction", "New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction", "Venice (Italy) -- Fiction"], "publish_country": "nyu", "subject_place": ["Kievan Rus", "Paris (France)", "New Orleans (La.)", "Venice (Italy)"], "by_statement": "by Anne Rice.", "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "uris": ["http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random058/98014579.html", "http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random042/98014579.html", "http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random046/98014579.html"], "publishers": ["Alfred A. Knopf", "Distributed by Random House"], "ia_box_id": ["IA150801"], "physical_format": "Hardcover", "publish_places": ["New York / Toronto"], "pagination": "387 p. ;", "url": ["http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random058/98014579.html", "http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random042/98014579.html", "http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random046/98014579.html"], "copyright_date": "1998", "ocaid": "vampirearmand0000rice", "isbn_10": ["0679454470"], "isbn_13": ["9780679454472"], "lccn": ["98014579"], "oclc_numbers": ["779388000", "972144627", "1142638374", "924994206", "38521516"], "dewey_decimal_class": ["813/.54"], "lc_classifications": ["PS3568.I265 V25 1998", "PS3568.I265V25 1998"], "key": "/books/OL354828M", "number_of_pages": 387, "works": [{"key": "/works/OL77832W"}], "latest_revision": 22, "revision": 22, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-01T21:48:08.425600"}}