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What is Interview with the Vampire about?

Anne Rice’s novel Interview with the Vampire (1976) centers on the protagonist Louis, who has been a vampire for 200 years and is gifted, or cursed, with immortal life. Much of the novel’s action takes place in the 18th and 19th centuries in New Orleans. The book’s central theme explores Louis’s life and experiences as a vampire as he grapples with the moral implications of immortality and the act of feeding off humans.