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. 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. Rather is it a blend of nostalgic recall very definitely an adult remembering, interpreting, philosophizing over the brief period of awakening that belongs to adolescence, and episodes about incidents, often horrors, related to other people in the town.

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. Dandelion Wine (1957) is a coming-of-age novel by Ray Bradbury, best known as one of the fathers of speculative fiction. The dandelion wine becomes a symbol of successive events, week by week. Dandelion Wine: A Novel (Grand Master Editions) Mass Market Paperback Apby Ray Bradbury (Author) 3,091 ratings Book 1 of 3: Greentown See all formats and editions Kindle 18.49 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 16.99 31 Used from 3.13 22 New from 15.89 4 Collectible from 45. 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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