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    Weaveworld

    By Clive Barker

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    Here is storytelling on a grand scale — the stuff of which a classic is made. Weaveworld begins with a rug — a wondrous, magnificent rug — into which a world has been woven. It is the world of the Seerkind, a people more ancient than man, who possesses raptures — the power to make magic. In the last century they were hunted down by an unspeakable horror known as the Scourge, and, threatened with annihilation, they worked their strongest raptures to weave themselves and their culture into a rug for safekeeping. Since then, the rug has been guarded by human caretakers.

    The last of the caretakers has just died.

    Vying for possession of the rug is a spectrum of unforgettable characters: Suzanna, granddaughter of the last caretaker, who feels the pull of the Weaveworld long before she knows the extent of her own powers; Calhoun Mooney, a pigeon-raising clerk who finds the world he's always dreamed of in a fleeting glimpse of the rug; Immacolata, an exiled Seerkind witch intent on destroying her race even if it means calling back the Scourge; and her sidekick, Shadwell, the Salesman, who will sell the Weaveworld to the highest bidder.

    In the course of the novel the rug is unwoven, and we travel deep into the glorious raptures of the Weaveworld before we witness the final, cataclysmic struggle for its possession.

    Barker takes us to places where we have seldom been in fiction--places terrifying and miraculous, humorous, and profound. With keen psychological insight and prodigious invention, his trademark graphic vision balanced by a spirit of transcendent promise, Barker explores the darkness and the light, the magical and the monstrous, and celebrates the triumph of the imagination.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossroad Press
    Release dateJun 4, 2014
    ISBN9781310564307
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    Clive Barker

    Clive Barker is the bestselling author of twenty-two books, including the New York Times bestsellers Abarat; Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War; the Hellraiser and Candyman series, and The Thief of Always. He is also an acclaimed painter, film producer, and director. He lives in Southern California.

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    • 5/5
      Ride the weft and weave beyond the fabric of everyday there lies... what your heart knows.
    • 4/5
      Beautifully written, Barker's WEAVEWORLD rivals authors such as Gaiman (Neverwhere), Pratchett (Discworld series), King (Dark Tower series or Eye of the Dragon).
      It drags even the most unwilling reader into the story; the characters are as finely drawn as those in Game of Thrones or Tad Williams Otherland. Barker draws the reader into becoming attached to the main characters & creates in the reader a sense of personal attachment to the characters. By the end (which sadly comes far too quickly), the only consolation is that Barker has many other fantastic books to read.
    • 4/5
      Good book. Nice story. Ian McShane IS the Salesman.