The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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#1 NewYork Times BestsellerFrom #1 New York Timesbestselling author Neil Gaiman, a haunting novel that explores the awesomepower of memory, friendship, and sacrifice―one of ten classic Gaiman worksrepackaged with elegant original watercolor art by acclaimed artist Henry SeneYee"A novel about the truths--some wonderful, some terrible--that children know and adults do not." --Time MagazineReturningto his childhood home to attend a funeral, a middle-aged man is drawn back to aplace once alive with monsters and magic; to a past where the impossible is alltoo frighteningly real . . .Ahaunting meditation on memory, wonder, friendship, and sacrifice, The Oceanat the End of the Lane, which was named "Book of the Year" by the UKNational Book Awards, is a groundbreaking triumph of storytelling as delicate asa butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.