Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind\'s destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin-visions as keen as the tattooist\'s needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. * The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury -a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle.
A peerless American storyteller, his oeuvre has been celebrated for decades-from *The Martian Chronicles* and *Fahrenheit 451* to *Dandelion Wine* and *Something Wicked This Way Comes. *He was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could bear the voiced murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body.* **The Illustrated Man**Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.
When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. It can be a best friend moving away, a human time machine who can transport you back to the Civil War, or a sideshow automaton able to glimpse the bittersweet future.Ĭome and savor Ray Bradbury's priceless distillation of all that is eternal about boyhood and summer.Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. But as young Douglas is about to discover, summer can be more than the repetition of established rituals whose mystical power holds time at bay. It is yesteryear and tomorrow blended into an unforgettable always. It is a pair of brand-new tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfather's renowned intoxicant, the distant clang of the trolley's bell on a hazy afternoon. Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond the city limits. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author's most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928. Ray Bradbury's moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels.
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