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02233aam a2200313 4500 001 3F80568AB63811EC99599F991FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220407010037 020 $a 006226303X 020 $a 9780062263032 040 $a Micro Mark $d SILO 100 $a Gaiman, Neil. 245 $a The ocean at the end of the lane [sound recording] : $b [a novel] $c Neil Gaiman. 264 1 $a New York $b Harper Audio $c 2013 300 $a Compact discs.5 sound discs (5.5 hrs.) $b digital $c 4 3/4 in. 500 $a Unabridged. 511 $a Performed by Neil Gaiman. 520 $a 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. 520 $a 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 Lettiemagical, comforting, wise beyond her yearspromised to protect him, no matter what. 520 $a 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. 650 $a Audiobooks. 650 $a Good and Evil 650 $a Survival 650 $a Magic 655 $a Fiction 008 s2013 941 $a 1 952 $l REPC017 $d 20220407015904.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3F80568AB63811EC99599F991FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search