SACRAMENT

BARKER, CLIVE

ISBN 10: 006017949X / ISBN 13: 9780060179496

Published by New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996, 1996

About this Item

1ST EDITION/1ST PRINTING STATED hardcover NEAR FINE/dustjacket NEAR FINE brodart covered, book was SIGNED in PERSON on the title page by author CLIVE BARKER. Seller Inventory # SCBSACHB

Bibliographic Details

Title: SACRAMENT

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

As a child, Will Swift encounters ancient, evil forces that reveal certain secrets of life to him, and as an adult, Will discovers that the forces have come back for him and most of life on Earth. By the author of Everville. 125,000 first printing. $175,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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.