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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The celebrated modern classic from the No.1 bestselling writer.
From New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling writer Neil Gaiman, comes a novel of memory, magic and survival, about the power of stories and the darkness inside each of us.
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THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'BOOK OF THE YEAR'
AN ACCLAIMED WEST END THEATRE PRODUCTION *
Neil Gaiman's entire body of work is a feat of elegant sorcery. He writes with such assurance and originality that the reader has no choice but to surrender to a waking dream. ARMISTEAD MAUPIN
Some books just swallow you up, heart and soul. JOANNE HARRIS
Summons both the powerlessness and wonder of childhood, and the complicated landscape of memory and forgetting. GUARDIAN
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My favourite response to this book is when people say, 'My childhood was nothing like that - and it was as if I was reading about me'. NEIL GAIMAN
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This is what he remembers, as he sits by the ocean at the end of the lane:
A dead man on the back seat of the car, and warm milk at the farmhouse.
An ancient little girl, and an old woman who saw the moon being made.
A beautiful housekeeper with a monstrous smile.
And dark forces woken that were best left undisturbed.
They are memories hard to believe, waiting at the edges of things. The recollections of a man who thought he was lost but is now, perhaps, remembering a time when he was saved...
NEIL GAIMAN.
WITH STORIES COME POSSIBILITIES.
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Includes an interview with Neil Gaiman on creating the world of the novel
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Neil Gaiman is celebrated for his significant imagination and talent as a writer. Philip Pullman praises Gaiman's ability to address substantial themes within his work.
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ISBN: 9781472200341
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 10 April 2014
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Headline Book Publishing
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Neil Gaiman has spent his adult life making things up and writing them down. He lives more in America than he does anywhere else. He has written books and films and children's books and television. He has a blog over at www.neilgaiman.com. He's won more than his fair share of literary awards, was voted twenty-first equal on a recent poll of Great British Authors, and has no idea where he put his keys.
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