Sacrament - Hardcover

Barker, Clive

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002235617 ISBN 13: 9780002235617

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1996

Synopsis

434 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

About this title

Review:

A boy has an encounter with a man who causes extinctions of other species, and as a result grows up to be a man who documents (and thus appeals for a halt to) those extinctions. This dark fantasy tale is unlike most of Clive Barker's work, being more tightly plotted, and more of this world. In a sequence of well-executed stories within stories (comparable to Russian dolls), Barker unfolds a compelling examination of what it means to be human, to be a man and, more specifically, to be a gay man on a planet where ageing, disease and death bring "the passing of things, of days and beasts and men he'd loved." A satisfying long novel packed with vivid images, memorable characters and a melancholy mood that reaches for hope.

Review:

‘A gripping book that weaves a compulsive spell... vintage Barker’
The Times

‘Barker’s unique brand of eco-mysticism weaves as potent a spell as ever’
Maxim

‘The premier metaphysicist of contemporary fiction. Breathtaking.’
Locus

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0002235617
• ISBN 13: 9780002235617
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400