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About the Author

NEIL GAIMAN is the author of more than twenty
books, and is the recipient of numerous literary honors. Born and raised in
England, he now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and dreams of endless
libraries.

www.NeilGaiman.com

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Copyright

Grateful acknowledgment is given to Art Spiegelman for permission to use a word balloon from his collaborative conversation with Maurice Sendak in
The New Yorker
, copyright © by Art Spiegelman. All rights reserved.

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE
. Copyright © 2013 by Neil Gaiman. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

EPub Edition June 2013 ISBN: 9780062255679

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