Weaveworld by Clive Barker (English) Paperback Book

Description: Weaveworld by Clive Barker Reissue of the highly acclaimed thriller by the worlds most outstanding dark fantasist. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Reissue of the highly acclaimed thriller by the worlds most outstanding dark fantasist. WEAVEWORLD is an epic adventure of the imagination. It begins with a carpet in which a world of rapture and enchantment is hiding; a world which comes to life, alerting the dark forces and beginning a desperate battle to preserve the last vestiges of magic which Humankind still has access to.WEAVEWORLD is a book of visions and horrors, a story of quest, titanic struggles, of love and of hope. It is a triumph of imagination and storytelling, an adventure, a nightmare, a promise…Barkers fecundity of invention is beyond praise. In a world of hard-bitten horror and originality, Clive Barker dislocates your mind. THE MAIL ON SUNDAY. Notes Reissues from the dark fantasist, with stylish new cover designs. Back Cover Weaveworld is an epic adventure of the imagination. It begins with a carpet in which a world of rapture and enchantment is hiding; a world which comes to life, alerting dark forces and beginning a desperate battle to preserve the last vestiges of magic which Humankind still has access to. Weaveworld is a book of visions and horrors, a story of quest, titanic struggles, of love and of hope. It is a triumph of imagination and storytelling, an adventure, a nightmare, a promise... The great imaginer of our timeQuentin Tarantino Barkers fecundity of invention is beyond praise. In a world of hard-bitten horror and originality, Clive Barker dislocates your mindMail on Sunday Flap Weaveworld is an epic adventure of the imagination. It begins with a carpet in which a world of rapture and enchantment is hiding; a world which comes to life, alerting dark forces and beginning a desperate battle to preserve the last vestiges of magic which Humankind still has access to. Weaveworld is a book of visions and horrors, a story of quest, titanic struggles, of love and of hope. It is a triumph of imagination and storytelling, an adventure, a nightmare, a promise... The great imaginer of our time Quentin Tarantino Barkers fecundity of invention is beyond praise. In a world of hard-bitten horror and originality, Clive Barker dislocates your mind Mail on Sunday Author Biography Clive Barker is the bestselling author of twenty-two books, including the New York Times bestsellers Abarat; Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War; and The Thief of Always. He is also an acclaimed painter, film producer, and director. For twelve years Mr. Barker has been working on a vast array of paintings to illuminate the text of The Books of Abarat, more than one hundred and twenty-five of which can be found within this volume. Mr. Barker lives in California. He shares his house with seven dogs, three cockatiels, several undomesticated geckoes, an African gray parrot called Smokey, and a yellow-headed Amazon parrot called Malingo. Review Praise for Clive Barker: An invocation of both magic and the imagination! A majestic maze of mythmaking WASHINGTON TIMES Passionate and ingenious! A ride with remarkable views TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Barker dislocates your mind MAIL ON SUNDAY Promotional An epic fantasy adventure Kirkus US Review Britisher Barker, horrors Wunderkind, has dazzled in several short-story collections (The Human Condition, In the Flesh, etc.), but disappointed in his one previous novel, the unwieldy The Damnation Game (1985). Never mind: his new dark fantasy, an epic tale of a magic carpet and the wondrous world within its weave, towers above his earlier work - and, despite some serious flaws, manages via its powerful and giddy torrent of invention to grasp the golden ring as the most ambitious and visionary horror novel of the decade. Barker attempts nothing less here than the resurrection of the imagination as the prime force in human destiny. To do so, he posits a race of magicians - the Seerkind - as always having cast spells of delight alongside humankind. But at the dawn of this century, modernitys onslaught forced the Seerkind to retreat within a magical fortress - a carpet. As the story begins, young Cal Mooney, an office grind with a fanciful heart, chances upon the rug and is transported into the enchanted fields and towns of "The Fugue" - the marvelous land woven within the rug. Cal faints from this vision; when he awakes, the rug is gone - and in its place are Immacolata (a demonic/erotic spirit) and Shadwell the Salesman (a human embodiment of the Seven Deadly Sins), veteran seekers for the rug Who, believing that Cal knows its location, pursue him with all the hounds of hell. After ferocious battles with evil entities, Cal links up with Suzanna - descendant of the carpets dead caretaker - who soon learns that Seerkind blood courses in her veins. Eventually the two track down the carpet, and, after it unweaves in northern England, visit the Oz-like land of The Fugue. But Shadwell follows them there and destroys the magic land in a ocean of blood. As homeless Seerkind wander England, their ancient enemy, "The Scourge" (an incredible creature akin to a mad fallen angel), wreaks havoc on Seerkind and humanity alike - until at novels end Cal and Suzanna harness their personal powers of wonder to defeat Shadwell and Scourge and to re-create The Fugue. Like Barkers earlier fiction, this complex work erupts with explicit sex and violence - but now the shocks punctuate a raging flood of image and situation so rich as to over-flow Barkers abilities to formalize it. Nearly every page teems with original ideas; whats missing, however, is an emotional vigor to backbone all this activity; Cal and Suzanna remain distant creations. Here Barker has unleashed literary genius without taming it - though cemented his position as the major horror rival to King. (Kirkus Reviews) Long Description Reissue of the highly acclaimed thriller by the worlds most outstanding dark fantasist. WEAVEWORLD is an epic adventure of the imagination. It begins with a carpet in which a world of rapture and enchantment is hiding; a world which comes to life, alerting the dark forces and beginning a desperate battle to preserve the last vestiges of magic which Humankind still has access to. WEAVEWORLD is a book of visions and horrors, a story of quest, titanic struggles, of love and of hope. It is a triumph of imagination and storytelling, an adventure, a nightmare, a promise... Barkers fecundity of invention is beyond praise. In a world of hard-bitten horror and originality, Clive Barker dislocates your mind. THE MAIL ON SUNDAY. Review Quote Praise for Clive Barker:An invocation of both magic and the imagination... A majestic maze of mythmakingWASHINGTON TIMESPassionate and ingenious... A ride with remarkable viewsTIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTBarker dislocates your mindMAIL ON SUNDAY Feature * Stylish new cover design - a must have for Barker fans Competition: Neil Gaiman; Description for Sales People Reissue of the highly acclaimed thriller by the worlds most outstanding dark fantasist. WEAVEWORLD is an epic adventure of the imagination. It begins with a carpet in which a world of rapture and enchantment is hiding; a world which comes to life, alerting the dark forces and beginning a desperate battle to preserve the last vestiges of magic which Humankind still has access to. WEAVEWORLD is a book of visions and horrors, a story of quest, titanic struggles, of love and of hope. It is a triumph of imagination and storytelling, an adventure, a nightmare, a promise... Barkers fecundity of invention is beyond praise. In a world of hard-bitten horror and originality, Clive Barker dislocates your mind. THE MAIL ON SUNDAY. * Stylish new cover design - a must have for Barker fans Competition: Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, James Herbert Details ISBN0006483003 Author Clive Barker Pages 752 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers ISBN-10 0006483003 ISBN-13 9780006483007 Format Paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.914 Illustrations Illustrations Media Book Year 1997 Edition New edition Language English UK Release Date 1997-04-07 Publication Date 1997-04-07 Imprint HarperVoyager Edited by Michael Wittmann Birth 1927 Death 1925 Affiliation University of Queensland Position Senior Lecturer Qualifications J.D. Alternative 9780007382965 Audience General AU Release Date 2009-11-02 NZ Release Date 1997-01-22 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:1659480;

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