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 16-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. Purple boards, headband, Near Fine condition with faint edge wear, illustrated end papers, 389 (xxv) pages fully illustrated in colour through-out by Clive Barker, un-read condition, errant ink mark on bottom edge, dust jacket is in Very Good Plus condition with a 1 1/2" (inch) closed (& repaired) tear at spine head (check the scans) now in Mylar. New York: HarperCollins / Joanna Cotler Books, 2002.
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