From the Dust Returned - Softcover

Ray Bradbury

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743429982 ISBN 13: 9780743429986

Publisher: Earthlight (UK), 2002

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Enter the strange world of the Elliott family...it will change you forever IN THE ATTIC WHERE THE RAIN TOUCHED THE ROOF SOFTLY ON SPRING DAYS AND WHERE YOU COULD FEEL THE MANTLE OF SNOW OUTSIDE, A FEW INCHES AWAY, ON DECEMBER NIGHTS, A THOUSAND-TIME GREAT GRANDMERE EXISTED. SHE DID NOT LIVE, NOR WAS SHE ETERNALLY DEAD, SHE...EXISTED. She is the grandmother of the Elliott family, which includes mind-readers, vampires and many others...maybe. In a strange old house, they gradually come together, mixing their arcane skills and life-styles, falling in and out of love and changing the world around them forever. You have never seen their like before.

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High on a hill by a forked tree, the House beckons its family homeward, and they come--travelers from the lyrical, lush imagination of Ray Bradbury.

From the Dust Returned chronicles a community of eternal beings: a mummified matriarch who speaks in dust; a sleeping daughter who lives through the eyes and ears of the creatures she visits in her dreams; an uncle with wings like sea-green sails. And there is also the mortal child Timothy, the foundling son who yearns to be like those he loves: to fly, to sleep in daytime, and to live forever. Instead, his task is to witness the family's struggle with the startling possibility of its own end.

Bradbury is deservedly recognized as a master of lyricism and delicate mood. In this novel he weaves together individuals' stories and the overarching family crisis into a softly whispered, seductive tale of longing and loss, death and life in the shadowy places. --Roz Genessee

About the Author:

Ray Bradbury is one of the Twentieth Century's most celebrated writers of fiction. Author of FARENHEIT 451, THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES and SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, among many other books, he has also written extensively for theatre and cinema - including the screenplay for John Huston's classic film of MOBY DICK. He lives in California with his wife.

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