num_pages: 160
description: World-renowned dark fantasy artist Brom in this illustrated novel intimately combines his dramatic storytelling with his uniquely arresting images, to create a work of striking imagination, a world where fairy-tale tradition collides with vileness and depravity, love and heroism, suffering and sacrifice. A shadowy land of make-believe where Jack and his box are stuck beneath the bed with the dust, spiders, and other castaway toys, forced to face a bitter children grow up and toys are left behind. Jack believes this is the worst that can happen to a toy.But when the Plucker, a malevolent spirit, is set loose upon the world of make-believe and Jack is thrust into the unlikely role of defending Thomas, the very child who abandoned him, he finds out there is worse that can befall a toy-far worse. As desperation mounts, Jack is thrown together with Thomas's other toys-Monkey, the Nutcracker, and the ethereally beautiful porcelain doll Snow Angel-as they struggle to rise above their simple roles as playthings in an effort to save the boy they love.
language: English
title: The Plucker
titlecomplete: The Plucker
genres: Fairy Tales, Dark, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Young Adult, Dark Fantasy, Comics, Fiction, Horror, Art
ratings_count: 2340
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Art Book
publisher: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."