![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Ocean at the End of the Lane, we are listening to a jaded middle-aged man who's gone home for a family member's funeral reminisce about some crazy adventures he had when he was seven years old and befriended an odd little girl named Lettie Hempstock. There's always been an eccentric family down the road, of course they're secretly immortal beings with infinite power and wisdom." If nothing else, you'll never look at your neighbors the same way-definitely not after reading The Ocean at the End of the Lane. The man has such a vivid imagination he creates whole worlds that would feel right at home in a Tim Burton movie, and then plops them down in the middle of pastoral settings in such a way that you think to yourself: "Yeah, okay-sure. In Britain, however, where Gaiman comes from, his book covers are plastered along the Underground tunnels in poster form, streets are renamed after his fictional tales, and in 2013 his book The Ocean at the End of the Lane won the prestigious Book of the Year award-and for good reason. But we can also guess why you don't know about this lion of the fantasy genre: you live in the United States (or, you know, you just don't read much fantasy). If you don't know that Neil Gaiman is a Big Deal (that's right-we busted out the capital letters for this one), then we feel majorly sorry for you. The Ocean at the End of the Lane Introduction ![]()
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