The Ocean At The End Of The Lane

Author: Neil Gaiman

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  • : $27.99 AUD
  • : 9781472200327
  • : Headline Publishing Group
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  • : January 2013
  • : 216mm X 135mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : May 2013
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Barcode 9781472200327
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Description

THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac - as pure as a dream, as delicate as a butterfly's wing, as dangerous as a knife in the dark - from storytelling genius Neil Gaiman. It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond this world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defence is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.

Promotion info

THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is a novel about memory and magic and survival, about the power of stories and the darkness inside each of us, created by the unparalleled imaginative power of Neil Gaiman.

Reviews

'Gaiman is, simply put, a treasure-house of story, and we are lucky to have him' -- Stephen King 'Gaiman has a rich imagination...and an ability to tackle large themes' -- Philip Pullman

Author description

Neil Gaiman was born in England but now lives in Minnesota, in a big house of uncertain location where he accumulates computers and cats.