Abarat by Clive Barker (2003, Paperback, Reprint)

Synopsis
Daylight battles darkness in the most literal sense in film director Clive (HELLRAISER) Barker's sequel to his sorcery novel, ABARAT. Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight, means to kill heroine Candy Quackenbush (formerly of Chickentown, Minnesota) and envelop the islands of Abarat in a Permanent Midnight. The Day-world and the Night-world will clash in the war between the Hours, and an otherworldly freak show of utterly bizarre characters, many of them delineated in over 100 full-color paintings by Barker, assist the apparently doomed Ms. Quackenbush in her travails. Barker's graphic descriptions of this strange land and its imaginatively appalling denizens augment the mayhem, and the vexing mysteries of Candy's identity and why she's beginning to remember odd details like how to make magic are revealed in the rousing conclusion.

Key Details
Author:	Clive Barker
Language:	English
Publisher:	HarperCollins Children's Books
Series:	Abarat
Format:	Paperback
ISBN-10:	0064407330
ISBN-13:	9780064407335

Additional Details
Illustrator:	Clive Barker
Edition Description:	Reprint

Size
Length:	432 pages
Thickness:	1 in
Weight:	32 oz

Publisher's Note

A journey beyond imagination
is about to unfold. . . .

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

When the answer comes, it's not one she expects.

Welcome to the Abarat.

Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, one day finds herself on the edge of a foreign world that is populated by strange creatures, and her life is forever changed.

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. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

Industry Reviews
"Barker gets big points for Candy, an unusually natural and winning heroine."
(11/14/2002)

" Abarat is not a book in which plot is paramount. Above all, this is a deeply lovely catalogue of the strange. Islands carved into colossal heads, giant moths made of coloured ether, words that turn into aeroplanes, tentacled maggot-monsters: they dance past like a carnival, a true surrender to the weird, vastly more inventive than the tired figures that visit some bespectacled boy-wizards. The joy is that all these imagined things are enthusiastically illustrated by Barker himself."
(10/19/2002)