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Fiction - Science Fiction - ISBN: 190583439X, 1905834381, 0586043608, 0553119303, 0552082767, 0380977265 more

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You do things and you don't watch...then, all of a sudden, you look at what you're doing and it's like the very first time. It happens to everyone at least once. And while it...
more...lasts, the ordinary business of living becomes a magical series of discoveries and revelations. It happened to Douglas Spalding the summer he was twelve years old...the summer of 1928, when he discovered that he was truly alive and he yelled it a dozen times in celebration. Ray Bradbury's wondrous novel of inter-connected stories and vignettes depicts what is truly a vintage summer for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns and new sneakers...of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinners. It tells of a season of sorrows and marvels alike.

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A vintage year

Review of Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury by MAFARRIMOND

Advantages: Superb imagary evocative of summer.
Disadvantages: Recurring theme of death and loss

Although Dandelion Wine is listed under Sci Fi/ horror, it is in fact neither of these. Ray Bradbury’s novel is a nostalgic and imaginative collection of stories evoking memories of childhood experiences and discoveries. Dandelion Wine is a semi-autobiographical novel. In his introduction to the book, Bradbury explains that he did in fact construct the novel from memories of his own childhood, that he did have a best friend called John Huff and ... Read review

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