The Ocean at the End of the Lane

I make things up and write them down. Which takes us from comics (like SANDMAN) to novels (like ANANSI BOYS and AMERICAN GODS) to short stories (some are collected in SMOKE AND MIRRORS) and to occasionally movies (like Dave McKean's MIRRORMASK or the NEVERWHERE TV series, or my own short film A SHORT FILM ABOUT JOHN BOLTON).In my spare time I read and sleep and eat and try to keep the blog at www.neilgaiman.com more or less up to date.

出版者:William Morrow

作者:Neil Gaiman

页数:192

出版时间:2013-6-18

价格:USD 25.99

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780062255655

图书标签:奇幻NeilGaiman尼尔·盖曼小说英国英文原版科幻/奇幻外国文学

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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.

读后感

译文版又一次让中文读者领先于英文读者，抢先读到了盖曼叔的这本文艺格调翻番的新作。这回的翻译完成得相当漂亮。插画方面也不赖。美版的封面文艺又孤独，中译本的则更子供向一些，被装点成一个温暖的画片集。 　　 　　内容上，这回盖曼叔走的是罗伯特·麦卡蒙《奇风岁...  

这些年下来，尼尔盖曼的书断断续续也看了不少。印象中它们大多是温暖的，这种温暖可以包裹在传说故事中（《星尘》），也可以经由惊悚悬疑的调调慢慢抽丝剥茧引出（《蜘蛛男孩》），甚至可以以哥特的风格呈现出来（《坟场之书》）。题材风格于小说只是一种表现形式，而作者...  

这些年下来，尼尔盖曼的书断断续续也看了不少。印象中它们大多是温暖的，这种温暖可以包裹在传说故事中（《星尘》），也可以经由惊悚悬疑的调调慢慢抽丝剥茧引出（《蜘蛛男孩》），甚至可以以哥特的风格呈现出来（《坟场之书》）。题材风格于小说只是一种表现形式，而作者...  

读的时候不停怀疑“他是不是发挥失常了”“这次写得太平常了”；可当我读完整本合上书那之后的整整一天，都还沉浸在故事的气氛和情绪里无法自拔。不得不说这次的老梗用得非常常规流式化，但是盖曼的本事就是这样的：在最通俗最常见的桥段里细细浸满了悲伤、哀恸、希望、...

用户评价

开头和中段好过结尾。A page-turner.

今年的Xmas gift！超惊喜。一拿到就忍不住翻了起来，一口气翻了几十页觉得这样下去这么厚一本应该很快读完了又不舍，于是强令自己减慢速度。。。--果然一个晚上读完，是248页啦不是190页。世界观设定果然又宏大了起来，可是感觉很多东西都没讲清楚。NG 有了自己的模板了，看到中间一直忍不住想到卡罗琳的故事。以及他果然是个永远长不大的，玻璃心的7岁小男孩。

太温柔的一本小书。尼尔盖曼怎么能记得那么多的事情。童年那么多恐惧，不应该随着年纪被一把又一把时间的土埋得严严实实吗。

#很多情节穿越去了DW.......

在亚马逊上买的的第一本书，第一本塞进Kindle的书，第一本读完的盖曼的原文书，太有纪念意义了。