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Автор: Clive Barker
Издательство: HarperCollins
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isbn: 9780007397532
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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1983

      Copyright © Clive Barker 1992

      All illustrations copyright © Clive Barker 1992

      Clive Barker asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780006473114

      Ebook Edition © December 2013 ISBN: 9780007397532

      Version: 2018-11-05

       The Thief of Always

      ‘A great fable’ INTERZONE

      ‘Disturbing … Intriguing … A compelling novel … refreshingly comic’

      TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT

      ‘Gorgeous prose brimming with invention, the wonderstuff we’ve come to expect from the maestro of dark fantasy … A dazzling treasure of the fabulous and the wicked from a master storyteller who seems intent upon single-handedly spinning the myths and fairytales, both dark and wondrous, of our time’

      NORTHERN ECHO

      ‘Clever, concise and traditional … Barker has a powerful talent for arousing apprehensions’

      THE TIMES

      ‘Something for everyone here and an impressive excursion into childhood fears and delights’

      MIDWEEK

      ‘Swiftly and vigorously told, it should be much enjoyed’

      SUNDAY EXPRESS

      ‘Delightful, but with enough of Barker’s demonic flair to beguile fans of his more paint-the-room-red ventures’

      GLASGOW HERALD

      ‘Will obviously attract at least as many adult as younger readers, and shouldn’t disappoint many of any age’

      CITY LIMITS

      Locus Best of the Year recommended reads:

      ‘In terms of artistic bravery and accomplishment, I was delighted to see what Clive Barker and Stephen King accomplished. Barker’s The Thief of Always is a lean fable for readers of all ages dealing with the taking of magic and the giving it back. It’s pretty wonderful’

      EDWARD BRYANT

      To M. S. S.

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       VII A Present From the Past

       VIII Hungry Waters

       IX What Do You Dream?

       X Falling From Grace

       XI Turnabout

       XII What the Flood Gave Up; (And What It Took)

       XIII The Fourth Part of Darkness

       XIV Time Was

       XV New Nightmares

       XVI Back To the Happy Land

       XVII Cook, Cat and Coffin

       XVIII The Bitter Truth

       XIX Dust To Dust

       XX The Thieves Meet

       XXI Tricks and Temptations

       XXII Appetite