6/7/2023 0 Comments The graveyard book cover![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That had to be it: Gaiman was being too subtle for me. Gaiman himself is distinctly different his voice is gentle, his prose so smooth that I got the impression momentous things were passing me without me noticing. (It’s Gaiman a fluke would have been unlikely in any event.) It does seem to be aimed at a younger audience than any of the other nominees, though, and I wondered more than once whether I was too old for it. The Graveyard Book has already been awarded the Newbery Award, so I know it hasn’t been nominated through a fluke. I was puzzled as to the reason, and I finally decided that it was completely unlike the others on the ballot. The Graveyard Book left me more confused and turned around than any of the other nominees, despite the more unconventional and complex plots featured in those books. The graveyard’s dead denizens raise Bod as their own, and through a series of vignettes - short stories? interrelated tales? - we see Bod grow from childhood to an adult. The Graveyard Book is the story of Nobody “Bod” Owens, a baby who wanders into a graveyard after his family is assassinated. And now, for the fifth of five nominees for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. ![]()
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