The Land of Nod
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Publisher Description
Standing at the crossroads of middle age, knee-deep in divorce and decline, Jeff Dittimore finds himself looking back in time.
Back past opportunities squandered and dreams unfulfilled; back to the days when he and his buddies lived with one foot in this world and the other in a world of pure imagination—the Land of Nod. A dangerous place, an exciting place…their place.
Not that he would want to go back to those times, of course. Memory is untrustworthy. Childhood has teeth. And the Land of Nod was never real, anyway.
Was it?
First ebook edition of a 1995 hardcover original.
“…provides a chilling glimpse of what it might be like if a 12-year-old ran the universe.” - Michael Berry, The San Diego Union-Tribune
WINNER, “Best of the Best,” San Diego Book Awards
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Supernatural horror novels featuring adults confronting fears and mysteries from their childhood have been made common by King and others, so elements of Clements's latest seem too familiar. Yet in exploring-via a peculiar haunting-the powers of belief and imagination, the author of Lorelei and Children of the End turns in an involving yarn, pitching some new twists into an old formula. Nightmares about his youth drive 40-something attorney Jeff Dittimore to return to his childhood town, where further apparitions and uncanny conversations with friends from his past lead him to understand what happened many years earlier, when his two school chums disappeared. Finally, Dittimore joins the apparitions and childhood friends in ``the land of Nod,'' a realm that is both real and not-real, to fight for himself and others against monstrous forces. Through strong characters and atmospheric settings, and by varying Dittimore's present-day, first-person narrative with a few third-person excursions into his protagonist's childhood, Clements delivers yet another soundly told and entertaining, if rather traditional, horror tale.
