A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and …
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A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.
Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.
A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Paperback, 192 pages
Published June 18, 2013 by William Morrow.
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- 978-0-06-227234-8Copied ISBN!
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
mass market paperback, 256 pages
Published Nov. 26, 2019 by Neil Gaiman, William Morrow.
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- 978-0-06-245936-7Copied ISBN!
The Ocean at the End of the Lane Deluxe Signed Edition
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published July 30, 2013 by William Morrow.
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- 978-0-06-226508-1Copied ISBN!
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Hardcover
English language
Published March 8, 2013 by Headline.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4722-0031-0Copied ISBN!
The Ocean At The End Of The Lane
library binding, 208 pages
Published June 3, 2014 by Turtleback Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-606-35231-4Copied ISBN!
Ocean at the End of the Lane
Hardcover, 181 pages
Published Aug. 30, 2013 by William Morrow.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-06-228022-0Copied ISBN!
Ocean at the End of the Lane
288 pages
English language
Published April 7, 2020 by Headline Publishing Group.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4722-6022-2Copied ISBN!
Ocean at the End of the Lane
256 pages
English language
Published March 8, 2013 by HarperCollins Publishers.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-06-225567-9Copied ISBN!
Ocean at the End of the Lane
272 pages
English language
Published March 8, 2015 by Headline Publishing Group.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4722-2842-0Copied ISBN!
The Ocean at the End of the Lane CD
audio cd, 5 pages
Published June 18, 2013 by HarperAudio.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-06-226303-2Copied ISBN!
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Hardcover, 192 pages
English language
Published March 8, 2013 by William Morrow.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-06-225565-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 813286810
El océano al final del camino
Published March 8, 2013 by Roca Editorial.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-9918-657-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 867556362
Ocean na końcu drogi
Polish language
Published March 8, 2018 by Wydawnictwo MAG.
- ISBN:
- 978-83-66065-02-4Copied ISBN!
El oceano al final del camino
Spanish language
Published March 8, 2013 by Roca editorial.
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- 978-84-9918-797-6Copied ISBN!
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