{"id":21170,"date":"2012-01-13T13:21:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T02:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=21170"},"modified":"2016-03-01T09:48:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T23:48:49","slug":"big-news-bestselling-author-anne-rice-reveals-the-inspiration-of-the-wolf-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2012\/01\/13\/big-news-bestselling-author-anne-rice-reveals-the-inspiration-of-the-wolf-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"BIG NEWS : Bestselling author Anne Rice reveals the inspiration of The Wolf Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anne Rice’s legendary ‘Vampire Chronicles<\/a>‘ immersed us in the mythology, lives and loves of a motley crew of undead; they defined a genre. And now she has another age-old story in her sights, the terrifying werewolf legend …<\/p>\n

The werewolf is the classic monster of horror fiction — dark, gothic, with supernatural depth and power – but here it is reimagined and reinvented with all Anne Rice’s supernatural sympathy and inventiveness, as a romantic being, a potentially tragic figure bestowed with the gift of transformation and transcendence.<\/p>\n

Only Anne Rice could make us wonder if it’s possible love a man-beast but, in The Wolf Gift<\/em>‘s<\/a> hero Reuben, we have a brand new hero for a brand new audience. The vampire is dead … 2012 is the year of the werewolf.<\/p>\n

Now a word from the author herself, Anne Rice:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The wolf gift is the gift of becoming a werewolf in the novel. <\/span><\/p>\n

This idea came about as I was watching several if not every werewolf film I could find when I was preparing to write the novel; and I noticed that, whenever someone was bitten and transformed into a werewolf, they frequently referred to that as a gift. Despite the fact that almost all of those films ended in tragedy with the werewolf being shot with a silver bullet because the gift also happened to transform into a curse, I continued to think that receiving the capacity to transform into a werewolf was not unlike receiving a gift\u2014a gift of awesome power and magnificent beauty! <\/span><\/p>\n

And I wanted to give that same opinion to Reuben, my hero in the book. He is the one who has and holds the idea that becoming a werewolf was not bad but good, not a curse but a gift. <\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout the book as his opinion develops and expands about the wolf gift, he expresses for me my own thoughts and feelings about becoming a powerful humanoid animal capable of achieving incredible feats that not even a real wolf or a human being could do because that powerful humanoid animal is really a synthesis of man and wolf. <\/span><\/p>\n

My hero is the core of being a werewolf: He is a Man-Wolf, a term developed by \u00c9mile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian in Hugues-le-loup or The Man Wolf. Similar to my development of the Dark Gift in the Vampire Chronicles<\/em>, the Wolf Gift allowed me to create and enter into a new cosmology, a new universe, and a new world. <\/span><\/p>\n

Anne Rice.<\/span><\/p>\n

Order your copy here<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Anne Rice <\/a>is the author of many internationally bestselling books, most recently The Road to Egypt<\/em>, the first volume in her life of Christ the Lord. She came to international fame for \u2018The Vampire Chronicles<\/em>\u2019, which include Interview with the Vampire<\/em> (filmed by Neil Jordan, starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt), The Tale Of The Body Thief<\/em> and the latest volume Blood Canticle<\/em>. The musical Lestat, with music by Elton John, opened on Broadway in April 2006. Her other fiction includes the shorter vampire novels, Pandora<\/em> and Vittorio the Vampire<\/em>, as well as The Witching Hour, Lasher, The Mummy, The Feast Of All Saints<\/em> and Cry To Heaven<\/em> (soon to be a major film). She was born in New Orleans, where she lived for many years, and now lives in Palm Springs, California.<\/p>\n

Anne Rice<\/a> has sold over 100 million copies of her books to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anne Rice’s legendary ‘Vampire Chronicles‘ immersed us in the mythology, lives and loves of a motley crew of undead; they defined a genre. And now she has another age-old story in her sights, the terrifying werewolf legend … The werewolf is the classic monster of horror fiction — dark, gothic, with supernatural depth and power – but here it is reimagined and reinvented with all Anne Rice’s supernatural sympathy and inventiveness, as a romantic being, a potentially tragic figure bestowed with the gift of transformation and transcendence. Only Anne Rice could make us wonder if it’s possible love a man-beast but, in The Wolf Gift‘s hero Reuben, we have a brand new hero for a brand new audience. The vampire is dead … 2012 is the year of the werewolf. Now a word from the author herself, Anne Rice: The wolf gift is the gift of becoming a werewolf in the novel. This idea came about as I was watching several if not every werewolf film I could find when I was preparing to write the novel; and I noticed that, whenever someone was bitten and transformed into a werewolf, they frequently referred to that as a gift. Despite the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[614,993,2616,6090],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57431,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170\/revisions\/57431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}