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
library binding, 208 pages
Published June 3, 2014 by Turtleback Books.
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- 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.
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- 978-0-606-38532-9Copied ISBN!
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
256 pages
English language
Published June 28, 2016
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- 978-0-06-245936-7Copied ISBN!
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
256 pages
English language
Published Feb. 28, 2013
- ISBN:
- 978-0-06-225567-9Copied ISBN!
The Ocean at the End of the Lane CD
audio cd, 5 pages
Published June 18, 2013 by HarperAudio.
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- 978-0-06-226303-2Copied ISBN!
Ocean at the End of the Lane
304 pages
English language
Published April 7, 2019 by Headline Publishing Group.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4722-6023-9Copied ISBN!
Ocean at the End of the Lane
256 pages
English language
Published April 7, 2013 by HarperCollins Publishers.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-06-227859-3Copied ISBN!
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
192 pages
English language
Published June 15, 2021
- ISBN:
- 978-0-06-307070-7Copied ISBN!
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
248 pages
English language
Published Feb. 28, 2013
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4722-0031-0Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 16078220
Ocean at the End of the Lane
272 pages
English language
Published April 7, 2015 by Headline Publishing Group.
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- 978-1-4722-2842-0Copied ISBN!
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
181 pages
English language
Published Feb. 28, 2013
- ISBN:
- 978-0-06-227234-8Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 18080771
Ocean at the End of the Lane
English language
Published May 4, 2021 by Concord Theatricals.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-573-13279-7Copied ISBN!
Ocean at the End of the Lane
English language
Published May 4, 2013 by HarperCollins Publishers.
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- 978-0-06-228021-3Copied ISBN!
Ocean at the End of the Lane
English language
Published May 4, 2017 by Perfection Learning Corporation.
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- 978-1-6636-2719-3Copied ISBN!
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