She finds it and is surprised to see it is covered in swirling lines exactly like the ones she doodled in her school book. As Shape gets away from Mischief and his brothers and begins to climb the stairs, Candy searches for the ball that goes in the cup and will light the lamp. When she reaches the top, she finds an inverted pyramid with a cup on top. Candy climbs the rotting lighthouse stairs while the brothers distract Shape. Because he is pursued by a sinister humanoid being named Mendelson Shape, Mischief sends Candy to light the lamp in the lighthouse, which summons an ocean known as the Sea of Izabella from a parallel world. Mischief's seven brothers live on these horns, appearing only as heads. She then encounters a master thief named John Mischief who looks human except for the antlers on his head. She finds this incredibly strange because Chickentown is thousands of miles from the ocean. After an argument with her teacher over a school project and the doodling Candy has done in her school workbook, Candy leaves the school and goes to the edge of town, where she sees the remains of a lighthouse. Plot Ībarat focuses on Candy Quackenbush, a teenage girl frustrated with her life in Chickentown, Minnesota. The American Library Association picked Abarat as one of its Best Books for Young Adults. By most accounts, Barker realised early that the story he wanted to tell could not be contained in one book. Barker had already completed 300 paintings before he started working on the first book. The paintings in the book are done with oils. The title image contains an ambigram, which may indicate that it's derived from the Russian word 'наоборот' meaning 'backwards'. The eponymous Abarat is a fictional archipelago which is the setting for the majority of the story. A visual and literary treat that will capture the imaginations of adults and children alike.Abarat (2002) is a fantasy novel written and illustrated by Clive Barker, the first in Barker's The Books of Abarat series. The first book of Abarat is a spellbinding adventure for all ages, combining the heart-stopping tension of a thriller with the powerful charm of the most enduring fable. In order to prevent this disaster, Candy must find the courage to confront the Lord of Midnight and in doing so come to know who she really is, a revelation which will transform her own understanding of her place in the epic events. As Candy makes her journey between all the islands of the archipelago, she will discover a plot by Christopher Carrion to block out the sun, moon and stars to achieve a condition of Permanent Midnight. She has friends there, and she has enemies. Candy Quackenbush, a sixteen year old from Chickentown, Minnesota, crosses by accident from our world into Abarat, and discovers she has been there many, many times before. A land made up of twenty-five islands, each one representing one hour of the day, each one a unique place of adventure and danger (and one mysterious place out of time), all ruled over by the evil Christopher Carrion, Lord of Midnight, and his monstrous grandmother, Mater Motley. Abarat: an archipelago of amazement and wonder. A dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages, the first of a quartet appearing at yearly intervals.
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