The Deep End of the Ocean
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| Author | Jacquelyn Mitchard |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Allen Lane |
Publication date | June 1996 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 434 pp (hardback edition) & 528 pp (paperback edition) |
| ISBN | 0-670-86579-6 (hardback edition) & ISBN 0-00-649909-0 (paperback edition) |
| OCLC | 33443698 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3563.I7358 D4 1996 |
The Deep End of the Ocean is a best-selling novel by Jacquelyn Mitchard, released in 1996. It is about an American middle class, suburban family that is torn apart when the youngest son is kidnapped and raised by a mentally ill woman, until he appears at the front doorstep of his real mother and asks if he can mow the lawn.