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The thief of always : a fable / Clive Barker.
LIBRA - Special PR6052.A6475 T48 1992b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barker, Clive, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fantasy.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Advance reading copy.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperCollins, [1992]
- Summary:
- After a mysterious stranger promises to end his boredom with a trip to the magical Holiday House, ten-year-old Harvey learns that his fun has a high price.
- Contents:
- Harvey, half-devoured
- Hidden way
- Pleasure and the worm
- Death between seasons
- Prisoners
- Seen and unseen
- Present from the past
- Hungry waters
- What do you dream?
- Falling from grace
- Turnabout
- What the flood gave up (and what it took)
- Fourth part of darkness
- Time was
- New nightmares
- Back to the happy land
- Cook, cat and coffin
- Bitter truth
- Dust to dust
- Thieves meet
- Tricks and temptations
- Appetite
- War of seasons
- Fledgling thief
- Vortex
- Living proof.
- Notes:
- "This is an advance reading copy from uncorrected proofs. These pages have been set for this edition only and do not reflect the type, design, or layout to be used in the final hardcover edition"-- Prelim.
- OCLC:
- 900640403
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