{"id":10518,"date":"2012-10-09T13:27:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T21:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=10518"},"modified":"2012-10-09T13:27:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T21:27:30","slug":"the-first-synopsis-for-the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane-by-neil-gaiman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/news\/the-first-synopsis-for-the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane-by-neil-gaiman\/","title":{"rendered":"The first synopsis for The Ocean at the End of the Lane<\/em> by Neil Gaiman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Portrait of Neil Gaiman by Adrien Deggan<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

A synopsis for Neil Gaiman’s next novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane<\/em>, has surfaced, and I haven’t stopped drooling since:<\/p>\n

\nIt 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.<\/p>\n

His only defense are three women on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s short and sweet, but hints at all the magic that I expect from Gaiman, who explains the novel as “a fable that reshapes modern fantasy” and “a novel of childhood and memory. It\u2019s a story of magic, about the power of stories and how we face the darkness inside each of us. It\u2019s about fear, and love, and death, and families. But, fundamentally, I hope, at its heart, it\u2019s a novel about survival.”<\/p>\n

The Ocean at the End of the Lane<\/em> will release on June 18, 2013, and this blogger’ll be in line at the bookstore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A synopsis for Neil Gaiman’s next novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, has surfaced, and I haven’t stopped drooling since: 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. His only defense are three… The Ocean at the End of the Lane<\/em> by Neil Gaiman”>Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[38,397,398,35],"class_list":["post-10518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-fantasy","tag-neil-gaiman","tag-the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane","tag-urban-fantasy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n