The Vintage Bradbury
Ray Bradbury's Own Selection of His Best Stories
Bradbury, Ray
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Once upon a time people described Ray Bradbury as a particularly gifted writer of science fiction. Today he seems more like a magical realist, a small-town American cousin to Borges and Garcia Marquez. A writer whose vision of the world is so intense that the objects in it sometimes levitate or glow with otherworldly auras.
Who but Bradbury could imagine the playroom in which children's fantasies become real enough to kill? The beautiful white suit that turns six down-and-out Chicanos into their ideal selves? Only Bradbury could make us identify with a man who lives in terror of his own skeleton. And if a generic science fiction writer might describe a spaceship landing on Mars, only Bradbury can tell us how the Martians see it-and the and dreamlike visitors from Planet Earth.
BOOK REVIEWS
"Ray Bradbury is one of the most original living American authors....A curious mixture of poetry and colloquialism, [his style] is so brisk and economical...so full of unexpected quirks that it never becomes boring....Most of Ray's stories are impossible-so far-but they are certainly convincing....His work will last."
-- Gilbert Highet, from the Introduction
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0679729461
ISBN(13-digit): 9780679729464
Copyright: 1990
Dewey Decimal: 813/.54
Library of Congress: 90033217
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
Paper Weight (lb): 0.7
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