false 6396822 3 With <I>Abarat</I>, Clive Barker begins an ambitious sequence of fantastic novels aimed at a young audience as well as his adult fans. There is as much sense of threat to the world here as there was in the horror novels with which he made his name. But the worst almost never happens here--and there is whimsy and charm along with a carefully judged and measured sense of the nightmarish. Young Cindy Quackenbush finds herself transported from the boredom of a Mid-Western chicken-packing town to the 25 islands of the Abarat--islands torn between the evil magician Christopher Carrion and the equally power-hungry rational capitalist Pixler. Each of the islands has a nature determined by an hour of the day--part of the pleasure of the book is seeing how Barker works this conceit out as Cindy travels from peril to peril. The book is literally a book of hours--in the Medieval sense; it's lavishly illustrated with over a hundred of Barker's striking paintings--much of its imagery was conceived of pictorially and then reinvented as story. This is a fine book--it is also a beautiful and charming object. <I>--Roz Kaveney</I> 2758234 book 1 9 2008 Abarat 3: Absolute Midnight total:0|5:7|4:9|3:4|2:1| 0 0 36 0 6396822 0007100477 9780007100477 0 0 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6396822-abarat-3 5 2 false Thu Oct 09 14:24:58 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 05 10:12:03 -0700 2009 6396822 0007100477 9780007100477 0 0 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6396822-abarat-3 0 1 false Tue Feb 26 16:17:51 -0800 2008 Sun Jul 05 10:12:03 -0700 2009 6396822 0007100477 9780007100477 0 0 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6396822-abarat-3 0 0 false Fri Jul 18 11:20:13 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 05 10:12:03 -0700 2009 6396822 0007100477 9780007100477 0 0 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6396822-abarat-3 0 0 false Thu Oct 23 18:50:19 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 05 10:12:03 -0700 2009 6396822 0007100477 9780007100477 0 0 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6396822-abarat-3 0 0 false Sat Apr 05 12:03:24 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 05 10:12:03 -0700 2009 6396822 0007100477 9780007100477 0 0 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6396822-abarat-3 0 0 false Wed Feb 06 19:38:25 -0800 2008 Sun Jul 05 10:12:03 -0700 2009 6396822 0007100477 9780007100477 0 0 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6396822-abarat-3 0 0 false Mon Dec 07 11:10:24 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 07 11:10:24 -0800 2009 6396822 0007100477 9780007100477 0 0 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6396822-abarat-3 0 0 false Mon Dec 07 09:30:19 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 07 09:30:19 -0800 2009 6396822 0007100477 9780007100477 0 0 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6396822-abarat-3 0 0 false Mon Dec 07 01:29:44 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 07 01:29:44 -0800 2009 6396822 0007100477 9780007100477 0 0 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6396822-abarat-3 0 0 false Mon Nov 30 14:05:55 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 14:05:55 -0800 2009 6396822 0007100477 9780007100477 0 0 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6396822-abarat-3 0 0 false Sun Nov 29 13:53:14 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 29 13:53:14 -0800 2009 6396822 0007100477 9780007100477 0 0 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6396822-abarat-3 0 0 false Sun Nov 29 12:16:19 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 29 12:16:19 -0800 2009 6396822 0007100477 9780007100477 0 0 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6396822-abarat-3 0 0 false Thu Nov 26 19:35:03 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 26 19:35:03 -0800 2009 6396822 0007100477 9780007100477 0 0 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6396822-abarat-3 0 0 false Tue Nov 24 09:18:47 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 09:18:47 -0800 2009 6396822 0007100477 9780007100477 0 0 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6396822-abarat-3 0 0 false Tue Nov 24 07:44:47 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 07:44:47 -0800 2009 6396822 0007100477 9780007100477 0 0 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6396822-abarat-3 0 0 false Sat Nov 21 17:16:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 17:16:00 -0800 2009 6396822 0007100477 9780007100477 0 0 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6396822-abarat-3 0 0 false Fri Nov 13 08:15:16 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 08:15:16 -0800 2009 6396822 0007100477 9780007100477 0 0 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6396822-abarat-3 0 0 false Wed Oct 28 13:11:48 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 13:11:48 -0700 2009 6396822 0007100477 9780007100477 0 0 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6396822-abarat-3 0 0 false Mon Oct 26 22:20:19 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 30 17:07:52 -0800 2009 6396822 0007100477 9780007100477 0 0 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6396822-abarat-3 0 0 false Mon Oct 26 07:33:40 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 07:33:40 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6396822