The Hunger -

Whitley Strieber

[New York]: William Morrow and Company / Mass Market Paperback

1981

357 páginas

11h 54m

ISBN-10: 0743431022

Beautiful and wealthy, Miriam Blaylock lock enjoys a house in Manhattan's exclusive Sutton Place, priceless antiques, a magnificent rose garden, and an ability to live forever, which inevitably destroys her unknowing lovers... / [ASIN: ‎B01MXF0NIH / B000FC0PYO ]

Eternal youth is a wonderful thing for the few who have it, but for Miriam Blaylock, it is a curse -- an existence marred by death and sorrow. Because for the everlasting Miriam, everyone she loves withers and dies. Now, haunted by signs of her adoring husband's imminent demise, Miriam sets out in serach of a new partner, one who can quench her thirst for love and withstand the test of time. She finds it in the beautiful Sarah Roberts, a brilliant young scientist who may hold the secret to immortality. But one thing stands between the intoxicating Miriam Blaylock and the object of her desire: Dr. Tom Haver...and he's about to realize that love and death to hand in hand.

The author's second novel. "One of the very best contemporary vampire novels." Referenced in Barron: Horror Literature, 4-290. The basis for the excellent 1983 film directed by Tony Scott, starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. Willis: Horror and Science Fiction Films III, pg 133.