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It\'s been said that Vladimir Nabokov\'s best novels are the ones he wrote after starting a failed novel. Anne Rice wrote The Body Thief, the fourth thrilling episode of her Vampire Chronicles, right after she spent a long time poring over that most romantic of horror novels, Mary Shelley\'s Frankenstein, to research a novel Rice abandoned about an artificial man. Perhaps as a result of Shelley\'s influence, The Body Thief is far more psychologically penetrating than its predecessors, with a laser-like focus on a single tormented soul. Oh, we meet some wild new characters, and Rice\'s toothsome vampire-hero Lestat zooms around the globe--as is his magical habit--from Miami to the Gobi desert, but he\'s in such despair that he trades his immortal body to a con man named Raglan James, who offers him in return two days of strictly mortal bliss.
It\'s been said that Vladimir Nabokov\'s best novels are the ones he wrote after starting a failed novel. Anne Rice wrote The Body Thief, the fourth thrilling episode of her Vampire Chronicles, right after she spent a long time poring over that most romantic of horror novels, Mary Shelley\'s Frankenstein, to research a novel Rice abandoned about an artificial man. Perhaps as a result of Shelley\'s influence, The Body Thief is far more psychologically penetrating than its predecessors, with a laser-like focus on a single tormented soul. Oh, we meet some wild new characters, and Rice\'s toothsome vampire-hero Lestat zooms around the globe--as is his magical habit--from Miami to the Gobi desert, but he\'s in such despair that he trades his immortal body to a con man named Raglan James, who offers him in return two days of strictly mortal bliss.
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