Sacrament (novel)

Sacrament
AuthorClive Barker
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy novel
PublisherHarperCollins
Publication date1996
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Paperback)
ISBN0-00-648264-3
OCLC43220287

Sacrament is a 1996 novel by British author Clive Barker.[1] It follows a wildlife photographer who is obsessed with documenting species of animals that are faced with extinction. It is set in Yorkshire, England, San Francisco and Hudson Bay, Canada and explores how his obsession is connected to his upbringing in Yorkshire. The Author described it as "a story about how we become who we are and how we must deal with what we are by facing up to including the things that happened to us in childhood, good and bad. It's also about what's happening to our planet."[2]

Reception

Reviews

Kirkus Reviews wrote: "By turns suspenseful, intellectually exciting, wildly melodramatic, turgid, and bombastic, Barker's novel is charged—in its complex development and surprising resolution—with very real, very human emotion."[3] Grant McKenzie of the Calgary Herald called the novel "heartwarming" yet "heartbreaking" and "uplifting as well as depressing."[4]

Awards and nominations

In 1997 the book won the Lambda Literary Award for Speculative Fiction, and was nominated for the August Derleth Award for best novel, as well as the Locus Award for Best Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel.[5][6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "Sacrament". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "CONFESSIONS: Questions and Answers". Lost Souls. April 1996. Archived from the original on 30 January 2017. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  3. ↑ "SACRAMENT". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
  4. ↑ McKenzie, Grant (10 August 1996). "Clive Barker focuses on a haunted photograph". Calgary Herald. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
  5. ↑ Admin, Lambda (15 July 1997). "9th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 19 July 2026.
  6. ↑ "August Derleth Award". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 19 July 2026.
  7. ↑ "sfadb : Clive Barker Awards". www.sfadb.com. Retrieved 19 July 2026.


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