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Title | : | The Ocean at the End of the Lane |
Author | : | Neil Gaiman |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | First Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 181 pages |
Published | : | June 18th 2013 by William Morrow Books |
Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Horror. Magical Realism. Audiobook. Young Adult. Adult |
Neil Gaiman
Hardcover | Pages: 181 pages Rating: 4 | 453052 Users | 45988 Reviews
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Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy. Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what. A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.Declare Books During The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Original Title: | The Ocean at the End of the Lane |
ISBN: | 0062255657 (ISBN13: 9780062255655) |
Edition Language: | English |
Characters: | Lettie Hempstock, Ursula Monkton, The Nameless Boy, Ginnie Hempstock, Old Mrs. Hempstock |
Setting: | Sussex, England(United Kingdom) |
Literary Awards: | Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (2013), Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2014), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2014), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2014), Specsavers National Book Award for Book of the Year (2013) Goodreads Choice Award for Fantasy (2013 and Nominee for Best of the Best (2018) |
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$3.99 on kindle US. Today only! 2-4-18This was a magical story both happy and dark. I loved it so much! And Neil Gaiman did a wonderful job of reading his own book ❤Once a boy befriended a girl named Lettie Hempstock, her mother and grandmother and nothing was ever the same again.....There are beautiful and horrible things in this world and we find these things inside this book A boy that is coming of age in a world we know nothing about and everything about.... It did make me sad but you haveMonsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but arent. I turned 7 early in third grade. It was a memorable school year because I had for a teacher a nun with a reputation. Sister Evangelista was about 5 foot nuthin, and symmetrical. If the whats black and white, black and white, black and white a nun
I really, really wanted to like this book...but like so many Gaiman novels, it fell flat. Like pancake-flat. Maybe this one is a dud because we follow the least-interesting character in the entire book. Honestly, I couldn't be the only one who would've preferred to get the perspectives of the witches. Or the worm-creature? Or even the spiteful cat. Why Gaiman chose such a young, bland character to be his main, I will never know. I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was
I was not scared of anything, when I read my book... The Ocean at the End of the Lane ~~ Neil GaimanI loved retreating into the comfort of this book, like our young, unnamed hero in The Ocean at the End of the Lane often does. Gaiman sweeps through this books action breathlessly, without pause for long explanations or justifications. The boys point of view is a distinctive Gaiman touch; it is familiar from the way he handled people caught within dreams within The Sandman, but also hauntingly
I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible. This is a book that teaches us that we should never stop dreaming, that we should never stop seeing oceans in ponds and that we should never, ever, stop seeing better worlds in the things we read.The pond that was an ocean bespeaks the level of optimism that is inherent with childhood dreams. Everything seems better. Everything seems bigger and grander. Imagination makes the ordinary
Everything you need to know about "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" is right there in the title. The Ocean it alludes to is deep (fathom-deep as the true meanings of family & love & death); blue (icy like the Coraline's motherspider antagonist-- the demonic Nanny McPhee in the middle of the story; cold like the rigidity of death, the panic of succumbing to childhood traumas); vast (like the leitmotifs spread out in elegant splendor along the narrative, tokens of the writer's impressive
Sitting down to write a review of this book, I don't quite know where to start. I was going to quote a passage that I particularly loved. But no good can come of that. Once I opened that door, where would I stop quoting? So let me say this. I genuinely loved this book. I look forward to reading it again. I will buy copies for my family as gifts. I will listen to the audio and lament my own lack of narrative skill. I will gush about it to strangers. In short, it is a Neil Gaiman novel. There is
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