The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel
| Category: | Book |
| By (author): | Gaiman, Neil |
| Subject: | FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology |
| FICTION / Fantasy / General | |
| FICTION / Literary | |
| FICTION / Magical Realism | |
| Audience: | general/trade |
| Awards: | Locus Award |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Published: | May 2021 |
| Format: | Book-paperback |
| Pages: | 192 |
| Size: | 8.00in x 5.31in x 0.43in |
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Additional Notes
| From The Publisher* | #1 New York Times Bestseller From #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, a haunting novel that explores the awesome power of memory, friendship, and sacrifice―one of ten classic Gaiman works repackaged with elegant original watercolor art by acclaimed artist Henry Sene Yee "A novel about the truths-some wonderful, some terrible-that children know and adults do not." -Time Magazine Returning to his childhood home to attend a funeral, a middle-aged man is drawn back to a place once alive with monsters and magic; to a past where the impossible is all too frighteningly real . . . A haunting meditation on memory, wonder, friendship, and sacrifice, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which was named "Book of the Year" by the UK National Book Awards, is a groundbreaking triumph of storytelling as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark. |
| Review Quote* | "[W]orthy of a sleepless night . . . a fairy tale for adults that explores both innocence lost and the enthusiasm for seeing what's past one's proverbial fence . . . Gaiman is a master of creating worlds just a step to the left of our own." |
| Review Quote* | "Remarkable . . . wrenchingly, gorgeously elegiac. . . . [I]n The Ocean at the End of the Lane, [Gaiman] summons up childhood magic and adventure while acknowledging their irrevocable loss, and he stitches the elegiac contradictions together so tightly that you won't see the seams." |
| Review Quote* | "Gaiman has crafted an achingly beautiful memoir of an imagination and a spellbinding story that sets three women at the center of everything. . . .[I]t's a meditation on memory and mortality, a creative reflection on how the defining moments of childhood can inhabit the worlds we imagine." |
| Review Quote* | "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." |
| Review Quote* | "Poignant and heartbreaking, eloquent and frightening, impeccably rendered, it's a fable that reminds us how our lives are shaped by childhood experiences, what we gain from them and the price we pay." |
| Review Quote* | "[A] compelling tale for all ages . . . entirely absorbing and wholly moving." |
| Review Quote* | "[A] story concerning the bewildering gulf between the innocent and the authoritative, the powerless and the powerful, the child and the adult. . . . Ocean is a novel to approach without caution; the author is clearly operating at the height of his career." |
| Review Quote* | "Ocean has that nearly invisible prose that keeps the focus firmly on the storytelling, and not on the writing. . . . This simple exterior hides something much more interesting; in the same way that what looks like a pond can really be an ocean." |
| Review Quote* | "This slim novel, gorgeously written, keeps its talons in you long after you've finished." |