The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Author:	Neil Gaiman
Publisher:	William Morrow & Co., 2013
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Book Type:	Novel
Genre:	Fantasy
Sub-Genre Tags:	Magical Realism Juvenile Fantasy Contemporary Fantasy
Awards:	2013 Nebula Nominated 2014 Locus F Winner 2014 Holdstock Nominated 2014 Mythopoeic Nominated 2014 WFA Nominated
Lists:	WWEnd Top Nominated Books
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Synopsis

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 the 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 defense is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.