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Hopelessness is reasonable.

But nothing of worth

in my life

came of reason.

Not my love,

not my art,

not my heaven.

So I am hopeful.

—Zephario Carrion

So Ends

The Third Book of Abarat

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Abarat: Absolute Midnight

Copyright © 2011 by Clive Barker

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Barker, Clive.

Absolute midnight / Clive Barker. — 1st ed.

    p.cm. — (Abarat ; [bk. 3])

Summary: Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, is the only person who can stop the evil Mater Motley who, now that the hour of midnight has come, is prepared to unleash the end of the world.

ISBN 978-0-06-029171-6

[1. Space and time—Fiction. 2. Fantasy.] I. Title.

PZ7.B25046Ac 2011

[Fic]—dc22

2010042665

CIP

AC

EPub Edition © SEPTEMBER 2011 ISBN: 9780062029669

11  12  13  14  15 SCP 10  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1

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