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 hor
An Excerpt From the Ocean at the End of the Lane: Chapters 1 - 3
β Scribed by Neil Gaiman
- Publisher
- Harper Collins;Headline
- Year
- 2014;2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 118 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0062367234
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β¦ Synopsis
"A novel about the truthsβsome wonderful, some terribleβthat children know and adults do not.β βTime MagazineβThey say you cannot go home again, and that is as true as a knife . . .β A man returns to the site of his childhood home where, years before, he knew a girl named Lettie Hempstock who showed him the most marvelous, dangerous, and outrageous things, but when he gets there he learns that nothing is as he remembered. Wondrous, imaginative, impossible, and at times deeply scary, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is classic Neil Gaiman and has captured the hearts of readers everywhere.
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