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written by Dreadlocksmile on 05/10/2004

Clive Barker, Sacrament - Synopsis:
"Will Rabjohns, perhaps the most famous wildlife photographer in the world, has made his reputation chronicling the fates of endangered species. Including his own. For even as Will rises to the pinnacle of his career, he is witnessing his own world, the close-knit San Francisco community that has nurtured and liberated him, ravaged by AIDS.

Then an almost mystical encounter with a bear in the Arctic leaves Will all but dead. In the depths of his coma, he revisits the wildernesses of his youth in England and relives the terrifying encounter that created him, both as an artist and a man.

Befriended by a mysterious couple, Rosa McGee and Jacob Steep, the young Will is granted the love he has been denied by his own family. But with that love comes a grim education. For while Rosa shows him the cruelties of passion, Jacob teaches him the purities of death - seducing him with the possibility that he might one day slaughter the last of a species and thus change the world forever.

When Will stirs from his long sleep, he realizes that this dark dream, which he thought he had put behind him, is still very much a part of who he is. Haunted by its echoes and driven by the certainty that he must face Rosa and Jacob one final time, he sets out on a journey of self-discovery, a journey that will lead him from the familiar streets of San Francisco, back to the Yorkshire Moors, and on to the stark beauty of Scotland's Western Isles. There he will penetrate the ultimate mystery - The Domus Mundi - and finally discover the secret that links his destiny to that of the innumerable creatures with whom we share our planet".

A dark tale that skates around the ideas and principals of extinction, both individual and as an entire species. The storyline finds itself placed both in the gay bars of San Francisco and the rather different atmosphere of the Yorkshire Dales. The novel blends dark fantasy with a sprinkling of the exotic and erotic. The base of the story skirts between the physical world of mankind and the haunting and surreal world of the magical and fantastic. The book opens the doors to many questions for the reader, but refreshingly it leaves the questions unanswered, allowing the reader to make their own conclusions and judgments. It is a book that you can tell Clive had brewing in himself for a long time, and this passionate masterwork has finally got released.

The book is well written and gripping from the start, with surreal character developments and even more bizarre twists within the plot. It will ease you into the unfolding tale and totally absorb you. A classic addition to Barker's work.

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