The Ocean at the Enf of The Lane

FICÇÃO - The Ocean At The End Of The Lanes

Autor: GAIMAN, Neil

Idioma: Inglês 

Editora: Harpercollins Usa

Assunto: Ficção 

Edição: 1 

Ano: 2013 

ISSBN: 9780062272348

Resenha segundo a Saraiva - A major new work from 'a writer to make readers rejoice' (Minneapolis Star Tribune) a moving story of memory, magic, and survival 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. 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.

Minha Opinião - Maravilhoso. Li devagarinho esta versão em inglês e amei a história do início ao fim. A leitura é fácil, não tive que procurar muita coisa no dicionário e me apaixonei pela Lettie Hempstock.
É um livro ideal para quem está aprendendo inglês e está no nível intermediário para cima.

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