Vittorio, the Vampire: New Tales of the Vampires: 2 - Hardcover

Rice, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375401601 ISBN 13: 9780375401602

Verlag: Knopf, 1999

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Brought up in Renaissance Florence, Vittorio finds his world shattered when his entire family is destroyed in an act of unholy violence and embarks on a desperate quest for revenge, tormented by his love for the mysterious Vampire Ursula and confronted by demonic enemies. 500,000 first printing. $500,000 ad/promo.

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andora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold.

Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures--a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power.

In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies. As he sets out in pursuit of vengeance, entering the nightmarish Court of the Ruby Grail, increasingly more enchanted (and confused) by his love for the mysterious Ursula, he finds himself facing demonic adversaries, war and political intrigue.

Against a backdrop of the wonders--both sacred and profane--and the beauty and ferocity of Renaissance Italy, Anne Rice creates a passionat

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• Verlag: Knopf
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375401601
• ISBN 13: 9780375401602
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304