Summer Morning, Summer Night - Softcover

Bradbury, Ray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596063068 ISBN 13: 9781596063068

Publisher: Subterranean Press, 2010

Synopsis

Green Town, Illinois stands at the very heart of Ray Bradbury Country. A lovingly re-imagined version of the author's native Waukegan, it has served as the setting for such modern classics as Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Farewell Summer. In Summer Morning, Summer Night, Bradbury returns to this signature locale with a generous new collection of twenty-seven stories and vignettes, seventeen of which have never been published before. Together, they illuminate some of Green Town's previously hidden corners, and reaffirm Bradbury's position as the undisputed master of a unique fictional universe.

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From Booklist:

In the hearts and minds of Bradbury enthusiasts, Green Town, Illinois, is as treasurable in fantastic literature as Baum’s Emerald City or Lewis’ Narnia. Modeled after the author’s boyhood home of Waukegan, idyllic midwestern Green Town was the setting for Bradbury’s novels Dandelion Wine (1957) and Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) as well as a handful of short stories. Until now most of those tales remained unpublished, an oversight Bradbury here rectifies in a welcome return to Green Town’s secret haunts and assorted eccentric citizens. A lonely teacher walks the town’s nocturnal streets pursuing an impossible romance with a night-shift rail-yard worker. After a broken engagement, a woman removes all her porch steps and barricades herself in an old Victorian house until her long-lost fiancé finally returns. Stories about love potions and aging couples trying to recapture their pasts mingle with shorter vignettes about passing circuses and the poignant fading of summer. Bradbury’s familiar poetic magic sings in every paragraph, reminding his readers why Green Town is worth visiting again and again. --Carl Hays

From Publishers Weekly:

Starred Review. As intoxicating as Bradbury's legendary Dandelion Wine, the 27 new and old stories in this potent collection resonate with timeless power. All set in Green Town, Ill., the vintage highlights include "Miss Bidwell," a sweet romance about a spinster and the delayed homecoming of her first love; the brilliant "The Screaming Woman," featuring the wide-eyed first person narration of a frantic 10-year-old who discovers a woman's premature burial; and "At Midnight, in the Month of June," in which a killer plays a demented game of hide and seek. Contemporary one-page shorts such as "The River that Went to the Sea" and "The Projector" round out a lyrical feast with the savor of "apricots and fresh apples and as water tastes when you rise at night and walk into a dark warm summer kitchen and drink from a cool tin cup." (Nov.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Subterranean Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1596063068
• ISBN 13: 9781596063068
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 184