| In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely
seductive strains 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 to Blackwood Farm: soaring white
columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a
dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn
Blackwood, 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 him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is
made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an
unwanted immortality, his doppelgänger becomes even more vampiric and
terrifying than Quinn himself. As the novel moves backwards and
forwards in time, from Quinn’s boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day
New Orleans, from ancient Athens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks
out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from
the spectre that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the
explosive secrets it holds. A story of youth and promise, of loss and the search for love, of secrets and destiny, Blackwood Farm is Anne Rice at her mesmerizing best. |