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
181 pages
English language
Published Feb. 28, 2013
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- 978-0-06-225565-5Copied ISBN!
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- 15783514
Ocean at the End of the Lane
288 pages
English language
Published April 7, 2020 by Headline Publishing Group.
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- 978-1-4722-6022-2Copied ISBN!
L'oceano in fondo al sentiero
Paperback, 255 pages
English language
Published Jan. 14, 2014 by HACHETTE UK.
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- 978-1-4722-0866-8Copied ISBN!
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- 20451982
L' oceano in fondo al sentiero
Paperback, 224 pages
Italiano language
Published by Mondadori.
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- 978-88-04-74140-4Copied ISBN!
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Paperback, 181 pages
Published April 7, 2014 by William Morrow.
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- 978-0-06-225566-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1298316097
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
mass market paperback, 192 pages
Published April 8, 2014 by Harper.
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- 978-0-06-232513-6Copied ISBN!
Lautan Di Hujung Lorong (The Ocean at the End of the Lane) (Malay Edition)
paperback, 250 pages
Published Jan. 31, 2014 by Buku Fixi (Fixi Verso).
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- 978-967-0374-52-9Copied ISBN!
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Paperback
English language
Published June 18, 2013 by Headline Review.
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- 978-1-4722-0032-7Copied ISBN!
Ocean na koncu drogi
Hardcover, 216 pages
Published May 21, 2013 by MAG.
- ISBN:
- 978-83-7480-386-1Copied ISBN!
Ocean at the End of the Lane
Paperback
English language
Published by W F Howes Ltd.
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- 978-1-4712-4708-8Copied 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!
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Hardcover, 336 pages
Published Nov. 5, 2019 by William Morrow & Company, William Morrow.
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- 978-0-06-299531-5Copied ISBN!
The Ocean At The End Of The Lane (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
library binding, 256 pages
Published June 28, 2016 by Turtleback Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-606-38532-9Copied ISBN!
El océano al final del camino
297 pages
Spanish language
Published April 7, 2014 by Rocabolsillo.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-15729-57-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 899742191
Ocean at the End of the Lane
hardcover, 181 pages
Published Aug. 30, 2013 by William Morrow.
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- 978-0-06-228022-0Copied ISBN!
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