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"Richard Mayhew is an ordinary young man with an ordinary life and a good heart. His world is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. This small kindness propels him into a dark world he never dreamed existed. He must learn to survive in London Below, in a world of perpetual shadows and darkness, filled with monsters and saints, murderers and angels. He must survive if he is ever to return to the London that he knew."
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and plot-driven.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Neil Gaiman
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 388
- Publisher
- Laguna, HEADLINE, Perennial
- Editions
- 46
- Language
- Polish, Portuguese, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9783455023077
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Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman born Neil Richard Gaiman, 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book (2008). In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards.
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