The Short Version: A young man who isn’t so young anymore returns to his childhood home for a funeral.  Somewhere between funeral and reception, he finds himself traversing old roads towards places he’d nearly forgotten – and, as he sits by the pond behind Hempstock Farm, he remembers a story that’d changed his life, also nearly forgotten. The Review: If there was any doubt that Neil Gaiman was due canonization as one of our greatest living writers, let this slim […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Literature • Tags: Fantasy, Fiction, Literature, Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane