ABARAT book 1

Clive Barker

ISBN 10: 0060280921 / ISBN 13: 9780060280925

Published by HarperCollins, 2002

About this Item

1ST EDITION/1ST PRINTING STATED hardcover book NEAR FINE clean copy minor shelf wear/dustjacket NEAR FINE minor shelf wear brodart covered, SIGNED on the FULL title page by author CLIVE BARKER.

Seller Inventory # SABTBK

Bibliographic Details

• Title: ABARAT book 1
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060280921
• ISBN 13: 9780060280925
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Barker, Clive
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • SIGNED FICTION FIRST EDITIONS
  • SIGNED GEN FICTION

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Synopsis

Thrust into a fantastical world far away from her home in Minnesota, Candy Quackerbush must make sense out of her new surroundings as she is sent to the island of Abarat in the Sea of Izabella where she is given a warning that the evil Lord Carrion is eagerly looking for her.

From the Back Cover

Once upon a world
where time is place
a journey beyond imagination
is about to unfold....

It begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown, U.S.A. Candy Quackenbush lives in Chickentown, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold.

When the answer comes, it's not one she expects. Out of nowhere comes a wave, and Candy, led by a man called John Mischief (whose brothers live on the horns on his head), leaps into the surging waters and is carried away.

Where? To the ABARAT: a vast archipelago where every island is a different hour of the day, from the Great Head that sits in the mysterious twilight waters of Eight in the Evening, to the sunlit wonders of Three in the Afternoon, where dragons roam, to the dark terrors of Gorgossium, the island of Midnight, ruled over by the Prince of Midnight himself, Christopher Carrion.

As Candy journeys from one amazing place to another, making fast friends and encountering treacherous foes -- mechanical bugs and giant moths, miraculous cats and men made of mud, a murderous wizard and his terrified slave-she begins to realize something. She has been here before.

Candy has a place in this extraordinary world: she is here to help save the Abarat from the dark forces that are stirring at its heart. Forces older than Time itself, and more evil than anything Candy has ever encountered.

She's a strange heroine, she knows. But this is a strange world.

And in the Abarat, all things are possible.