{"id":21042,"date":"2013-06-26T06:30:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T18:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=21042"},"modified":"2013-06-21T15:49:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T03:49:50","slug":"just-arrived-the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane-by-neil-gaiman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/06\/26\/just-arrived-the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane-by-neil-gaiman\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Arrived: &#8220;The Ocean At the End Of The Lane&#8221; by Neil Gaiman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/06\/26\/just-arrived-the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane-by-neil-gaiman\/ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21044\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21044\" title=\"Ocean at the end of the lane\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane-93x150.jpg 93w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a>This is the book that everyone seems to be talking about right now and it&#8217;s on my TBR table: w00t!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the backcover blurb says:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed &#8211; within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>His only defense is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac &#8211; as pure as a dream, as delicate as a butterfly&#8217;s wing, as dangerous as a knife in the dark&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And here&#8217;s a few reviews from &#8216;out there&#8217; [click on the name to read]:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/music-arts\/ocean-lane-book-review-article-1.1369838\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323844804578527430513802160.html\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2013\/06\/book-reviews-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane-neil-gaiman\">Tor.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the book that everyone seems to be talking about right now and it&#8217;s on my TBR table: w00t! Here&#8217;s what the backcover blurb says: &#8220;It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justarrived"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21042"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21096,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21042\/revisions\/21096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}