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Award-winning creator, narrator, and screenwriter Neil Gaiman in person selected this reserve, and, using the various tools of the Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX), cast the narrator and produced this work for his audiobook label, Neil Gaiman Presents. A few words from Neil on The Land of Laughs: "I select The Land of Laughs for Neil Gaiman Presents because I really like Jonathan Carroll's books and want to bring them to as wide an audience as you possibly can. I suspected the character of Thomas Abbey would be both an effort and an opportunity for the right narrator. Edoardo Ballerini conveys a certain wistfulness and vulnerability underneath Abbey's grumpiness." Thomas Abbey is a man trapped in a rut. An English teacher in a little Connecticut prep college, Abbey is within a crisis. His career is unfulfilling, he has no cultural or love life to speak of, and he cannot break out of the shadow of his famous daddy, the professional Stephen Abbey. To kick-start his life, he requires a sabbatical to focus on a biography of his favorite writer, Marshall France. France's books were the thing that placed Abbey sane during his child years, and even though he was renowned for his lyrical and imaginative children's books, nearly nothing was known about the writer's life. Although Abbey has been warned that France's little girl, Anna, has blocked all previous tries at her father's biography, he and Saxony Garder - an powerful woman also obsessed with France's life - head to Galen, Missouri, with high hopes of wearing down Anna's resistance. They can be astonished to find Anna the soul of small-town hospitality and quite excited about Abbey's proposal - even wanting to get the project finished at the earliest opportunity. Even stranger than Anna's action is the city of Galen itself. On the top, all is really as a little Midwestern town should be. But the people of the city seem to really know what their future holds - freak accidents and everything - right down to the hour and are as looking forward to Abbey to finish the biography as Anna is.
