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With a special introduction by Armistead Maupin, author of Tales of the City, this is a unique selection of the author’s best short stories and extracts from his novels, chosen by Clive and accompanied by a personal commentary which reveals the man behind the art.
In these stories, the real and the miraculous are always found within a breath of one another. Imagined landscapes spring up in inner city London, or the Yorkshire moors; the magical tribes of Barker's creation, the Seerkind and the Nightbreed, rub shoulders with shopgirls and refugees from post-war Warsaw. Life gives way to death, and vice versa; doorways open into other states of existence, and each doorway leads us back into the heart of our own dreams and fears.
The Essential Clive Barker is a treasurehouse of fiction, containing over seventy exercpts from novels, plays, and four full-length short stories, all personally selected by the author and accompanied by a series of fascinating and revealing introductions. It represents a vigorous and flourishing writing career that spans more than twenty years of work, and offers a privilegd insight into a remarkable writer and his art.
In these stories, the real and the miraculous are always found within a breath of one another. Imagined landscapes spring up in inner city London, or the Yorkshire moors; the magical tribes of Barker's creation, the Seerkind and the Nightbreed, rub shoulders with shopgirls and refugees from post-war Warsaw. Life gives way to death, and vice versa; doorways open into other states of existence, and each doorway leads us back into the heart of our own dreams and fears.
The Essential Clive Barker is a treasurehouse of fiction, containing over seventy exercpts from novels, plays, and four full-length short stories, all personally selected by the author and accompanied by a series of fascinating and revealing introductions. It represents a vigorous and flourishing writing career that spans more than twenty years of work, and offers a privilegd insight into a remarkable writer and his art.
Titre original : The Essential Clive Barker: Selected Fictions (1999)
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2000 Editions HarperCollins
618 pages
ISBN : 9780006514688
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