7.08.2013
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
by Neil Gaiman, 178 pgs, hardcover
Overall Grade: B+
Our unnamed protagonist revisits his childhood neighborhood. Though his old home as long been demolished, he drives to the end of the lane it was on to find the Hempstocks' farm just as he remembers it. He takes a walk down to their pond, and most of the rest of the book is a flashback to his childhood, beginning with the suicide of the opal miner who was boarding at their house and the unwanted attention it brings from unworldly creatures.
Overall Grade: B+
Our unnamed protagonist revisits his childhood neighborhood. Though his old home as long been demolished, he drives to the end of the lane it was on to find the Hempstocks' farm just as he remembers it. He takes a walk down to their pond, and most of the rest of the book is a flashback to his childhood, beginning with the suicide of the opal miner who was boarding at their house and the unwanted attention it brings from unworldly creatures.
Labels: genre: fantasy, genre: fiction, media: book
