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Gaiman, Neil
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Homecoming -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Recovered memory -- Fiction.
Sussex (England) -- Fiction
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Homecoming -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Recovered memory -- Fiction.
Sussex (England) -- Fiction
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The
ocean
at the
end
of the
lane
(
book
club
kit
-
fiction
) / Neil Gaiman.
by
Gaiman, Neil
William Morrow, 2013.
Call #:
BOOK
CLUB
KIT
GAI
Subjects
Homecoming --
Fiction
.
Family secrets --
Fiction
.
Recovered memory --
Fiction
.
Sussex (England) --
Fiction
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Information kit for The Ocean at the End of the Lane
ISBN:
9780062255655
Alternate title:
Book
club
kit
: The
ocean
at the
end
of the
lane
Bookclub
kit
: The
ocean
at the
end
of the
lane
Description:
10 books, 181 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Holds can be placed via the Contact Us page on our website. Please include your library card number, the date you would like to pick up the
kit
, the branch location, and list several titles for each date, in case your first pick is not available.
Ideal for your
Book
Club
or Reading Group. This
kit
includes a nylon Halifax Public Libraries bag with 10 copies of Neil Gaiman's "The
Ocean
at the
End
of the
Lane
", along with author and title information, and a list of discussion questions. The
kit
is available to borrow for 6 week loans.
Summary:
Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later... but they are never lost for good and the most grim of those memories, no matter how faint, can haunt one forever, as they do the anonymous narrator of Gaiman's subtle and splendid modern myth. The protagonist, an artist, returns to his childhood home in the English countryside to recover his memory of events that nearly destroyed him and his family when he was seven. The suicide of a stranger opened the way for a deadly spirit who disguised herself as a housekeeper, won over the boy's sister and mother, seduced his father, and threatened the boy if he told anyone the truth. He had allies
-
a warm and welcoming family of witches at the old farm up the road
-
but defeating this evil demanded a sacrifice he was not prepared for."--NoveList.
Genre:
Fantasy
fiction
.
Horror
fiction
.
Occult
fiction
.
Book
Club
Kit
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