Dandelion Wine (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Bradbury, Ray

4.08

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9780808520719: Dandelion Wine (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

ISBN 10: 0808520717 ISBN 13: 9780808520719

Publisher: Turtleback Books, 1985

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In the unusual world of Green Town, Illinois, a 12-year-old discovers the wonders of reality and the power of imagination during the summer of 1928

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Review:

World-renowned fantasist Ray Bradbury has on several occasions stepped outside the arenas of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. An unabashed romantic, his first novel in 1957 was basically a love letter to his childhood. (For those who want to undertake an even more evocative look at the dark side of youth, five years later the author would write the chilling classic Something Wicked This Way Comes.)

Dandelion Wine takes us into the summer of 1928, and to all the wondrous and magical events in the life of a 12-year-old Midwestern boy named Douglas Spaulding. This tender, openly affectionate story of a young man's voyage of discovery is certainly more mainstream than exotic. No walking dead or spaceships to Mars here. Yet those who wish to experience the unique magic of early Bradbury as a prose stylist should find Dandelion Wine most refreshing. --Stanley Wiater

From the Publisher:

The summer of '28 was a vintag season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding--remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury.

"Bradbury is an authentic original." -- Time

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