![]() Following Candy Quackenbash on her adventures is an enriching experience. It was only on a friend's recommendation that I purchased this slice of offbeat fantasy. ![]() Renowned as a horror writer, I have avoided him largely due to his links with Nightbreed and the Hellraiser series. Endlessly pursued by agents of evil who wish to unleash the "Requaix" hidden below the sea, how can this fourteen-year old hold the fate of the world in her hands?Ĭlive Barker's Abarat is one of the strangest, most fantastical pieces of writing I have ever come across. Her first encounter with a genial eight-headed creature known as John Mischief leads her on a adventure in which she is to become an unlikely heroine. Following the suicide of the town's original namesake Henry Murkitt, Candy is drawn into a world known as "Abarat", a world filled with wondrous sites and horrific visions. It is only when asked by her loathsome teacher to do a project on her dull town that she finds there is more to the place than meets the eye. ![]() ![]() Highly recommended here at Bookbag Towers.Ĭandy Quackenbush has one great fear that she will never leave her home of Chickentown, Minnesota. Summary: An imaginative journey through a young girl's fantastic world which shares more than a passing resemblance to The Wizard of Oz. ![]()
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