Oct 06 2008
The Graveyard Book
New out from Neil Gaiman is the Graveyard Book.
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.
He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.
There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer.
But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod’s family. . . .
It’s likely in the Young Adult section, which is an odd nomenclature to me. When I was young, I was reading both YA and Adult books all the time and I didn’t see much difference. I’d like to say, “well, except the covers were sillier,” except I read Fantasy and Sci-Fi. The covers are always silly. Except here. Neil apparantly knows the nifty people when it comes to book covers and interior art.
Not only should you be able to find this book in your local bookstores, but he’s also touring the country and giving live readings from the book. These are being recorded and collected at one of his websites, mousecircus.com. So, give it a whirl.
from: mousecircus.com
