SIGNED 1st printing HC. SIGNED by CLIVE BARKER. MANY gorgeous illustrations by Richard A. Kirk. Full color wraparound dust jacket. A MUST HAVE for the Barker enthusiast!
Maximillian Bacchus is the ringmaster, ruler, guide and owner of what he
considers the greatest show in the world. Traveling with a Crocodile
named Malachi, a trapeze girl named Ophelia, a strong mane they call
Hero, which is short for Hieronymus a clown named Domingo de Ybarrondo,
who paints in a wagon pulled by a giant "Ibis bird," the troupe wanders
from adventure to adventure with mythic aplomb.
From the first story, in which Indigo Murphy, the best bird handler in
the world leaves the show to join in matrimony with the Duke Lorenzo de
Medici, to the fabled court of Kubla Khan, the magic never stops. You
will meet a young apple thief named Angelo with magic eyes, and an
orang-outang named Bathsheba, and a host of other amazing characters
with names and personas cut like a patchwork quilt from the mythologies
and dreams of the world.
Though written forty years ago, these pages are littered with the same
magical side steps that have always been woven into Clive Barker's
fiction. Worlds not quit our own, and yet so real they ring with truth
and leave you wishing you could step from your mundane life into that
other place - into those caves of ice - if only long enough to catch
Maximillian's show.
The Adventures of Mr. Maximillian Bacchus and His Travell...
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle.
Learn more
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book.,
This review is from: The Adventures of Mr. Maximillian Bacchus and His Travelling Circus (Hardcover)
It's not great because it's Clive Barker, mind you, it's great because it's a "good read". Honestly, I'd forgotten I ordered this book, and when it arrived (signed by the author no less), I was pleasantly surprised.
And I read it in one sitting. Barker wrote these short stories as a teenager. He's far from a teenager at this point (and, honestly, would YOU want to be a teenager again?), but his skills -- at that age -- were rather amazing. Kudos, Clive (ha ha! like I know you personally), for a thoroughly engrossing book.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Myths and Magic,
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: The Adventures of Mr. Maximillian Bacchus and His Travelling Circus (Kindle Edition)
When I review a work, I try to compare the product not against other similar ones, but against itself, or rather, what it should be. The fact that The Adventures was written by Clive Barker when he was 17 is amazing, but in the end, irrelevant. As a young adult fantasy tale, does it succeed? I would have to say: almost. I was tempted to give this collection of short stories three stars, as I found it somewhat lacking in character development and plot, but I had to bump my rating up one star due to two things. One is the language, which is beautiful and florid, which Clive obviously excelled at, even at the age of 17 (unless he rewrote this later before publication) and the other was the flashes of his characteristic genius interspersed throughout the tales. Beautiful imagery, moments of real wonder, romance. In the end, however, I was left wishing for more. Sometimes that is a good thing, as when you're wishing the story will never end. Sometimes that's not so good, as with this collection, as I found myself wishing for more character development and plot. What Clive is known for, however, the prose and the fantastical imagery, is here... just in a slightly truncated form.
--Rod Redux, Author of the Oldest Living Vampire Tells All
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Begining,
This review is from: The Adventures of Mr. Maximillian Bacchus and His Travelling Circus (Kindle Edition)
A journey of the imagination. Four interwoven stories featuring memorable characters and settings as only the mind of Clive Barker can create.
Although this is a new book, it was written by him when he was a mere 17 years of age. Yep he was a master of the fantastic even then. He may best be known for his horror stories, but after reading this you will see his heart has always been in the realms of the fantastic. A must read for fans of The Thief of Always, Abarat or Imagica.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
