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| | CNN - Salon review: 'The Vampire Armand' - October 22, 1998 |
 | | As a character, the vampire Armand is a fresh-faced youth, eternally suspended on the verge of manhood. |
 | | Armand, the nubile Venetian, the living, breathing remnant of the high Renaissance, narrates his own story here, and his world-weary perspective is a subdued contrast to the bombast of Rice's usual hero, the egomaniacal rock star/French fop Lestat. |
 | | Armand's colorful Renaissance coterie of artists, courtesans and occasional psychotics are eventually replaced by two human companions -- a slightly daft piano prodigy and a street-smart 12-year-old whose stomach for gore is the only thing keeping him from being the cute sidekick who winds up in Jim Belushi movies. |
| www.cnn.com /books/reviews/9810/22/vampire.armande (654 words) |
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