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ISBN: 9780743298902
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New York Times bestselling author John Connolly’s unique imagination takes readers through the end of innocence into adulthood and beyond in this dark and triumphantly creative novel of grief and loss, loyalty and love, and the redemptive power of stories.
High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in his imagination, he finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a land that is a strange reflection of his own world, populated by heroes and monsters, and ruled over by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book... The Book of Lost Things.
An imaginative tribute to the journey we must all make through the loss of innocence into adulthood, John Connolly’s latest novel is a book for every adult who can recall the moment when childhood began to fade, and for every adult about to face that moment. The Book of Lost Things is a story of hope for all who have lost, and for all who have yet to lose. It is an exhilarating tale that reminds us of the enduring power of stories in our lives.
 
 
The Book of Lost Things
By
John Connolly
 
Copyright © 2006 by John Connolly
 
This book is dedicated to an adult, Jennifer Ridyard,
and to Cameron and Alistair Ridyard, who will be
adults all too soon.
 
For in every adult dwells the child that was, and in
every child lies the adult that will be.
 
 
Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales
told to me in my childhood than in the
truth that is taught by life.
—FRIEDRICH SCHILLER (1759–1805)
Everything you can imagine is real.
—PABLO PICASSO (1881–1973)
 
 
 
I
 
Of All That Was Found
and All That Was Lost
 
ONCE UPON A TIME — for that is how all stories should begin — there was a boy who lost his mother.
He had, in truth, been losing her for a very long time.
The disease that was killing her was a creeping, cowardly thing, a sickness that ate away at her from the inside, slowly consuming the light within, so that her eyes grew a little less bright with each passing day, and her skin a little more pale.
And as she was stolen away from him, piece by piece, the boy became more and more afraid of finally losing her entirely. He wanted her to stay. He had no brothers and no sisters, and while he loved his father, it woul ............

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