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The ocean at the end of the lane [electronic resource] / 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062255686 (electronic audio bk.)
- ISBN: 0062255681 (electronic audio bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file, 5 hr., 48 min.)
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York] : Harper Audio, 2013.
Content descriptions
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by the author. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Good and evil > Fiction. Women > Fiction. Boys > Fiction. Survival > Fiction. Memory > Fiction. Magic > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Horror fiction. Audiobooks. Fantasy fiction. Downloadable audio books. |
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- AudioFile Reviews : AudioFile Reviews 2013 June
"How long have you been 11 for?" That's just one of the mysteries in THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE, where otherworldly things might be strange but aren't in the least impossible. As the 7-year-old protagonist, Neil Gaiman projects all the wonders and terrors of childhood, both ordinary and extraordinary. His neighbors, 11-year-old Lettie, Mrs. Hempstock, and Old Mrs. Hempstock, have rural Sussex accents that get stronger when the things that they love and protect are threatened. Gaiman evokes the comforts of their farm lovingly--good food, a full moon that always shines on the back of the house just so--and they contrast with the coldly emotionless voice of the story's villain. Spooky, beautiful, and magical, OCEAN will stay with listeners for a long time. J.M.D. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award
