The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Large Print Edition

Zusatztext “When I finally closed the last page of this slim volume it was with the realization that I’d just finished one of those uncommon perfect books that come along all too rarely in a reader’s life.” Informationen zum Autor Neil Gaiman is the New York Times bestselling and multi-award winning author and creator of many beloved books, graphic novels, short stories, film, television and theatre for all ages. He is the recipient of the Newbery and Carnegie Medals, and many Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Will Eisner Awards. Neil has adapted many of his works to television series, including Good Omens (co-written with Terry Pratchett) and The Sandman . He is a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR and Professor in the Arts at Bard College. For a lot more about his work, please visit: https://www.neilgaiman.com/ Klappentext A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home and is drawn to the farm at the end of the road where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl and her mother and grandmother. As he sits by the pond ­behind the ramshackle old house, the unremembered past comes flooding back—a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy. 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. Zusammenfassung A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror! The Ocean at the End of the Lane is Neil Gaiman’s first new novel for adults since his #1 New York Times bestseller Anansi Boys. This bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival! and memory and magic! makes the impossible all too real... ...

Product details

• Authors: Neil Gaiman
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.2013
• EAN: 9780062278593
• ISBN: 978-0-06-227859-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Science Fiction, Short Stories, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Contemporary Fantasy, Horror and supernatural fiction, Holidays, events and seasonal interest, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Science Fiction / General, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), FICTION: Coming of Age, FICTION: Fantasy / Contemporary, FICTION: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION: Holidays, FICTION: Horror, FICTION: Magical Realism, FICTION: Friendship, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales