The Gates - Hardcover

Connolly, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1439172633 ISBN 13: 9781439172636

Publisher: Atria Books, 2009

Synopsis

Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Halloween. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue. The Abernathys don’t mean any harm by their flirtation with the underworld. But when they unknowingly call forth Satan himself, they create a gap in the universe. A gap which holds a pair of enormous gates—the gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings determined to get out...?

Can one small boy defeat evil? Can he harness the power of science, faith and love to save the world as we know it??

Bursting with imagination and impossible to put down, The Gates is about the pull between good and evil, physics and fantasy. It is about a quirky and eccentric boy who is impossible not to love, and the unlikely cast of characters who give him the strength to stand up to a demonic power. Like Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, this novel manages to re-create for grownups that magical and scary world of childhood that we’ve all left behind but so love to visit.

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Review:

Brilliant. I loved every word of it. John has found a voice that compares favourably with Stephen King and Monty Python which is not an easy trick. The Gates is delightfully horrific and hilarious and will create legions of fans among the living and undead, who will be bloodthirsty for more. (Eoin Colfer)

Destined to be another runaway success appealing to both young adults and their parent alike. (Sunday Independent)

Incredibly enjoyable. (FHM)

A demonic, darkly comic tale . . . satisfyingly peppered with science, history and amusing footnotes on everything from St Thomas Aquinas to quantum theory, and will go down well with readers of Eoin Colfer and Lemony Snicket. (Daily Telegraph)

Book Description:

Funny, scary adventure with a dachshund, demons, science - and footnotes

About this edition

• Publisher: Atria Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1439172633
• ISBN 13: 9781439172636
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296