Sacrament (novel)

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Sacrament

Current UK paperback edition
Author Clive Barker
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Fantasy novel
Publisher HarperCollins
Publication date 1996
Media type Print (Paperback)
ISBN ISBN 0-006-48264-3
Preceded by Everville
Followed by Galilee


Sacrament is a 1996 novel by British author Clive Barker.

"It is set in Yorkshire in England, in San Francisco, and in Hudson Bay in Canada. It is about a wildlife photographer who devotes his photographs to making accounts of species that are moving towards extinction. We discover as we follow his very troubled life that the reason for his obsession with animals and extinction can be traced back to his childhood in Yorkshire. It's 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. " (Clive Barker, interviewed in Lost Souls, Issue 3, March 1996)