The Ocean at the End of the Lane
- Format: Hardcover
- Språk: Engelsk
- Sjangere: Folkeeventyr og Myter, Fra Ung til Voksen, Litterær
- Slippdato: 18. jun. 2013
- Forlag: William Morrow & Company
Et skikkelig mesterverk innen mørk fantasi om vennskap og heltemot, sett gjennom et barns øyne. Sideantallet (som er relativt lavt) reflekterer ikke dybden på historien om en mann som drar tilbake til gamle trakter og gjenopplever en hendelse fra barndommen. Om jeg tror det hovedkarakteren opplever er et barns måte å håndtere traumatiske opplevelser på – eller om det faktisk er monstre ute etter ham – klarte jeg aldri å bestemme meg for. Denne boken har en helt spesiell plass i hjertet mitt.
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Sussex, England. 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...
Sussex, England. 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.
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.
SKU
9780062255655
Sjangere:
Folkeeventyr og Myter
Fra Ung til Voksen
Litterær
SKU | 9780062255655 |
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Vekt (Kg) : | 0.318000 |
Antall Sider | 192 |
Utgave | First Edition |
Språk | Engelsk |
Subsjanger: | Kontemporær |
Sjanger | Folkeeventyr og Myter, Fra Ung til Voksen, Litterær |
Format | Hardcover |
Utgiver | William Morrow & Company |
Opprinnelsesland : | USA |
Forfattere | Neil Gaiman |
Avansert Format | Hardcover |
Aldersgruppe | Voksen |
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