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The Ocean at the End of the Lane

by Neil Gaiman

Childhood memories, monsters, and magic

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    UK National Book Awards Book of the Year

    The book was named Book of the Year by the UK National Book Awards.

  • Bestseller

    #1 New York Times Bestseller

    The metadata identifies the book as a #1 New York Times bestseller.

  • Author recognition

    #1 New York Times bestselling author

    The metadata describes Neil Gaiman as a #1 New York Times bestselling author; this is an author recognition, not...

AlbakiReads Editorial

Childhood memories, monsters, and magic

A funeral brings a middle-aged man back to his childhood home, where the past resurfaces as a place of monsters and magic. The novel connects that return to questions of memory and to the distance between what children know and what adults understand. Friendship and sacrifice are part of its concerns, alongside the unsettling presence of the impossible. The coming-of-age subject classification sits alongside a frame shaped by adult recollection, giving the book a perspective that looks back across the boundary between childhood and adulthood.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in stories that bring childhood experience into conversation with adult memory.
  • Readers drawn to fiction combining monsters and magic with themes of friendship and sacrifice.

Themes

MemoryChildhood and adulthoodMonsters and magicFriendshipSacrifice

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Book overview

#1 New
York Times Bestseller

From #1 New York Times
bestselling author Neil Gaiman, a haunting novel that explores the awesome
power of memory, friendship, and sacrifice―one of ten classic Gaiman works
repackaged with elegant original watercolor art by acclaimed artist Henry Sene
Yee

"A novel about the truths--some wonderful, some terrible--that children know and adults do not." --Time Magazine

Returning
to his childhood home to attend a funeral, a middle-aged man is drawn back to a
place once alive with monsters and magic; to a past where the impossible is all
too frighteningly real . . .


A
haunting meditation on memory, wonder, friendship, and sacrifice, The Ocean
at the End of the Lane, which was named "Book of the Year" by the UK
National Book Awards, is a groundbreaking triumph of storytelling as delicate as
a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.

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