In the days before the civil war in the old french quarter of new orleans there lived the gens de couleur, the free people of colour, a fierce and proud people, descended from slaves and their french and spanish owners, neither black nor white, but caught between the two - free and yet not free. Among them is michael, the mesmeric copper-skinned youth, mercurial, attractive, wild: an artist in the making, he dreams of paris, and the lure of a brand new art, daguerreotype. His gentle sister marie longs for love and marriage in a world ready to sell her charms to the highest bidder. And there is anita bella, the beautiful young courtesan; and dolly rose, the splendid madame; and christophe, the brilliant young teacher who has returned from paris with dangerous ideas. The author of interview with the vampire has written a novel as exotic, exciting, colourful and sensuous as the french quarter itself.
About the Author
Anne Rice is the author of more than thirty internationally bestselling books including the Mayfair Witches sequence, Songs of the Seraphim and the Wolf Gift Chronicles. The phenomenon that became the Vampire Chronicles began with Interview with the Vampire in 1976, later made into a film starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, and culminated with Blood Canticle in 2003. Prince Lestat, published in 2014, and Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, published in 2016, were the first new Vampire Chronicle novels for over a decade. Anne Rice lives in California.