The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Softcover

Gaiman, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472208668 ISBN 13: 9781472208668

Verlag: Headline, 2014

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The ocean at the end of the lane editado por Headline Publishing

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Gaiman's achievement is to make the fantasy world seem true (The Times)

A book that reads like a half-remembered fairy tale from childhood... and slots perfectly into the canon of British magical fiction (New Statesman)

The writer who comes closest to the being the Dahl of his generation... The Ocean at the End of the Lane has, like all good myths, a power that defies explanation (Sunday Express)

Within a few pages you know you're reading a future classic (Stylist)

Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul (Joanne Harris)

I loved it (Roddy Doyle)

Gaiman's achievement is to make the fantasy world seem true (The Times)

It's possibly Gaiman's most lyrical, scary and beautiful work yet. It's a tale about childhood for grown-ups, a fantasy rooted in the darkest corners of reality. It is a story he's been waiting all his life to tell (Independent on Sunday)

A hugely satisfying scary fantasy and a moving, subtle exploration of family, of what it's really like to be a child, and how the memories of childhood affect the adults we become. It's a wonderful book (Irish Times)

The most affecting book Gaiman has written, a novel whose intensity of real-world observation and feeling make its other-worldly episodes doubly startling and persuasive (Daily Telegraph)

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WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2013 BOOK OF THE YEAR

The Ocean at the End of the Lane is the bestselling magical novel from Neil Gaiman, one of the most brilliant storytellers of our generation and author of the epic novel American Gods, and the much-loved Sandman series. 'Possibly Gaiman's most lyrical, scary and beautiful work yet. It's a tale of childhood for grown-ups, a fantasy rooted in the darkest corners of reality' (Independent on Sunday). If you loved the mesmerising world of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus or were drawn into J.K. Rowling's magical universe, this book is for you.

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 horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it.

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

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.

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• Verlag: Headline
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1472208668
• ISBN 13: 9781472208668
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272