NEIL GAIMAN: THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE (A CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AND AWARD WINNING NOVEL)

“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences.” —Neil Gaiman, THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE #A New York Times Bestseller #UK National Book Awards Book of the Year A groundbreaking work as delicate as a butterfly’s wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark, 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 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 where she once lived, 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. “[Gaiman’s] mind is a dark fathomless ocean, and every time I sink into it, this world fades, replaced by one far more terrible and beautiful in which I will happily drown.” —The New York Times Book Review “His prose is simple but poetic, his world strange but utterly believable―if he was South American we would call this magic realism rather than fantasy.” —The Times (UK) “Fantasy of the very best.” —Wall Street Journal Published by HEADLINE Publishing *Book is USED and in good condition. Pages are minimally tanned. There’s a small white sticker on page 3 (as can be seen closely on the 3rd slide). Should you need more information or photos please kindly ask