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This article is about the Clive Barker novel. For the Dave Eggers novel, see You Shall Know Our Velocity § Different editions.

Sacrament
First edition (UK)
Author	Clive Barker
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy novel
Publisher	HarperCollins
Publication date	1996
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (Paperback)
ISBN	0-00-648264-3
OCLC	43220287

Sacrament is a 1996 novel by British author Clive Barker. 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."

Reception

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." Grant McKenzie of the Calgary Herald called the novel "heartwarming" yet "heartbreaking" and "uplifting as well as depressing."

References

"Sacrament". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
"CONFESSIONS: Questions and Answers". Lost Souls. April 1996. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
"SACRAMENT". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
McKenzie, Grant (10 August 1996). "Clive Barker focuses on a haunted photograph". Calgary Herald. Retrieved 19 September 2024.

Works by Clive Barker

Literature

The Damnation Game The Hellbound Heart Weaveworld Cabal Imajica The Thief of Always Sacrament Galilee Coldheart Canyon Mister B. Gone The Scarlet Gospels
Books of the Art	The Great and Secret Show Everville
The Books of Abarat	Abarat Days of Magic, Nights of War Absolute Midnight
Collections	Books of Blood (short stories) Clive Barker, Illustrator (art) The Painter, The Creature and The Father of Lies (essays)
Comic books	Razorline Ectokid Hokum & Hex Hyperkind Saint Sinner

Films, TV
and video games

Directed by Barker	Hellraiser Nightbreed Lord of Illusions
Directed by others	Underworld Rawhead Rex Hellbound: Hellraiser II Candyman Quicksilver Highway A-Z of Horror Saint Sinner The Plague The Midnight Meat Train Book of Blood Dread Books of Blood
Masters of Horror	"Haeckel's Tale" "Valerie on the Stairs"
Video games	Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Interactive Movie Clive Barker's Undying Clive Barker's Jericho

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