{"product_id":"the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane-hardcover","title":"The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNeil Gaiman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, \u003cem\u003eThe Ocean at the End of the Lane\u003c\/em\u003e is Neil Gaiman's first new novel for adults since his #1 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eAnansi Boys.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival, and memory and magic, makes the impossible all too real...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Globe \u0026amp; Mail 100 Selection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA major new work from \"a writer to make readers rejoice\" (\u003cem\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e)-- a moving story of memory, magic, and survival\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSussex, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForty 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA groundbreaking work from a master, \u003cem\u003eThe Ocean at the End of the Lane\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e--\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/em\u003e(starred review)\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Globe \u0026amp; Mail 100 Selection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA major new work from \"a writer to make readers rejoice\" (\u003cem\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e)-- a moving story of memory, magic, and survival\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSussex, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForty 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. 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