Description

Author/Contributor(s):	Rice, Anne
Publisher:	Ballantine Books
Date:	9/30/2003
Binding:	Mass-market Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductivestrains of narrative—her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches—to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets.

Welcome toBlackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenchedgardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of QuinnBlackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgänger,“Goblin,” a spirit from a dream world that Quinn can’t escape and that prevents himfrom belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfullyhis and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelgänger becomes even more vampiricand terrifying than Quinn himself.

As the novel moves backwards and forwards intime, from Quinn’s boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancientAthens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in thehope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back to SugarDevil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds.

A story of youth and promise, ofloss and the search for love, of secrets and destiny, Blackwood Farm is Anne Riceat her mesmerizing best.