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The Tale of the Body Thief

  • Anne Rice

3.95

21 ratings

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. (source)

Genres

  • 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
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About the author

  • Anne Rice

    4 October 1941 - 11 December 2021

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    335 ratings · 62 works

Editions

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    Pocket

    2002-01-31

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    1a ed.

    Zeta Bolsillo

    2005

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    Random House Publishing Group

    1994

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    Penguin Random House

    1998

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B de Bolsillo (Ediciones B)

2021-10-01

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    Martı Yayınları

    2010-10-17

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    Plon

    1994-02

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    Pocket

    May 24, 2012

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    Random House Audio

    1992

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    Ballantine Books, Brand: Ballantine Books

    Mar 22, 1993

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    Ediciones B

    2009

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    1st U.S. Ballantine Books edition (22)

    Ballantine Books

    1995?

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    Goldmann

    August 1, 1996

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    Publicacoes Europa-America

    1994

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    1st ed.

    Atlantida

    1993

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    Pocket, n/a

    1995 04

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    Ediciones B

    May 1999

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    Distribooks

    March 2002

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    Abridged edition

    Random House Audio

    October 4, 1992

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    1a ed. TEADUE. 11th printing

    TEA

    2007

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    Ballantine Books

    December 13, 1997

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    New Ed edition

    Arrow Books Ltd

    November 4, 2004

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    Abridged edition

    RH Audio Price-less

    May 4, 2004

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    Penguin Books

    1993

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    1st U.S. Ballantine Books edition

    Ballantine Books

    1993-10

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    1st ed.

    Knopf, Distributed by Random House

    1992

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    1st edition

    Alfred A. Knopf

    1992

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    Chatto & Windus

    1992

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    1st Domestic Ballantine Books ed.

    Ballantine Books

    1993

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    Ballantine Books

    2014

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    Random House Value Publishing

    1994

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    Penguin Random House

    1992

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    Penguin Random House

    2010

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    Libros Sin Fronteras

    February 1996

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    BCA

    1995

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    Chu ban

    Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi yeh gu fen yu xian gong si

    1999

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    Bt Bound

    October 1999