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 enlarge | Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £70.00
Buy New: £42.00
You Save: £28.00 (40%)
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 4863
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 576
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.2
Dimensions (in): 12.8 x 8.7 x 2.1
ISBN: 1845766970
EAN: 9781845766979
ASIN: 1845766970
Publication Date: June 27, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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Adults Only? December 28, 2006
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I started reading The High Cost of Living: Death when I was about 13. I've followed the Sandman and Death characters ever since. Most of my reading of this was done in my teens. I recommend it for teens in particular. It is not "adults only" unless intelligent, literate authors are off-limits to teens. While schools teach young boys & girls Animal Farm and 1981 and people at home are reading the safe Harry Potter out of creative interest in the otherworldly: this will show you the familiar as you never saw it. It will take the reader into the taboo realms of mortality, through the Arabian Nights, Shakespeare, mythology & folklore and saying goodbye to those you love. It will present those things familiar and taken for granted and show you how the King of Dreams & his court (& cohort: The Endless) dally in those aforesaid subjects. He is the stuff of nightmare, terrible to behold, with the emptiness of the cosmos starry in his eyes. He has a sister and once, a son, he had a lover and many friends along the way; rarely does he realize that last, however. What would the world be like without The Sandman?
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