Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War: 2 - Softcover

Barker, Clive

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062094114 ISBN 13: 9780062094117

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2011

Synopsis

Clive Barker, author of The Thief of Always, delivers an epic battle filled with fantasy and adventure that readers won't want to put down!

All things in their time . . .

Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the Abarat are getting stranger by the hour. Why has the Lord of Midnight sent his henchman after her? Why can she suddenly speak words of magic? Why is this world familiar?

Candy and her companions must solve the mystery of her past before the forces of Night and Day clash and Absolute Midnight descends upon the islands.

A final war is about to begin. . . .

Don't miss this second book in Clive Barker's New York Times bestselling Abarat series.

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Review:

Clive Barker's inventiveness reaches new heights in Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War. What might have been just another portal fantasy in which a girl from our mundane world becomes crucial to the affairs of a fantastic one next door becomes something rich and strange because of the book's strong visual imagery. Barker spent many months painting at random and then used those paintings to create, and illustrate, the world of Abarat, where each island of an archipelago lives in the perpetual light or darkness of a single eternal day.

Abarat is a world of the monstrous, the bizarre and the beautiful--this is the book which most totally embodies Barker's strange talent since the short stories of The Books of Blood. There is power and suspense to this book's buildup to a final confrontation between the monstrous, treacherous and pathetic Christopher Carrion and the ingénue Cindy Quackenbush, but in a sense its point is all the decorations along the way; this second volume of Barker's quartet delivers on the promises of the first.--Roz Kaveney

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Praise for Abarat:

‘Abarat is more than just a new and major contender. It is (like his earlier book, The Thief of Always) full of a level of beautiful terror that children are still just able to bear.’ Independent

‘Always creating and always pushing into the furthest reaches of the human mind, he is an artist in every sense of the word. He is the great imaginer of our time.’ Quentin Tarantino

‘Abarat is a sumptuous and lovely thing.’
Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0062094114
• ISBN 13: 9780062094117
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 624
• Illustrator: Barker Clive