The Thief of Always
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| The Thief of Always | |
| Author | Clive Barker |
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| Illustrator | Clive Barker |
| Cover artist | Clive Barker |
| Genre(s) | Fantasy/Horror |
| Publisher | HarperTrophy |
| Publication date | 1992 |
| Pages | 267 |
| ISBN | 0-613-94064-4 |
The Thief of Always is a novel by Clive Barker that was published in 1992.
It is a fable written for children, but it has enough layers of meanings to also be enjoyed by adults. The book contains many color paintings by the author, and the cover is also illustrated by him.
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[edit] Plot
The Thief of Always starts out by introducing Harvey Swick. Harvey Swick is a 10-year-old kid bored out of his mind from school, boring teachers, and a never-ending supply of homework. He was so bored that he thought that he would forget to breathe. This is when Rictus comes to tell him about a kid’s paradise, the Holiday House. At the Holiday house there is all the sweets you could ask for, the four seasons in a day, Christmas everyday, Halloween every day, and everything else you could dream of. Harvey reluctantly goes to the house after a week of thinking. A man named Mr. Hood had made it all. After going through a mist wall he arrives at the Holiday House. It was everything he thought it would be and more. Harvey comes to love it and stays for a month becoming friends with Wendell and Lulu, two other kids at the house. He starts to get suspicious that the house is not as perfect as it seems. After Mrs. Griffin tells him that he is trapped here. So Harvey and his friend Wendell try to escape and succeed narrowly. After returning to the real world they find that for everyday they spent there, they lost a year. They decided they had to go back to try and steal them back. He and Wendell went back to the Holiday house and with a plan to get their lost time back. He knew that Hood ran the entire house on magic and that everything he saw was an illusion. Harvey defeats Hood by tricking him into using up all his magic effectively destroying the house. However, Hood rebuilds a body from the debris of the house, resulting in a final confrontation in which Hood is knocked into the lake, which has turned into a vortex (or whirlpool) and sucks him in. The children all leave the remains of the house to go back to their respective times.
[edit] Publication
Since its 1992 publication, it has been released in paperback & audiobook formats.
The novel has been serialized as a graphic novel under the name Clive Barker's The Thief of Always, published by IDW Publishing. The graphic novel was adapted by Kris Oprisko and illustrated by Gabriel Hernandez.
[edit] Film
A live action adaptation of the novel was negotiated between Seraphim Films and 20th Century Fox on or before August 4, 2004. [1] According the IMDB, the movie is scheduled for release in 2008 but is still listed as in production so the date is subject to change.
[edit] References
- ^ What's New with Clive? Retrieved 2005-03-03.
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