Name: Dandelion Wine (Grand Master Editions) (in English)
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Author: Ray Bradbury
ISBN: 9780553277531

portada Dandelion Wine (Grand Master Editions) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ray Bradbury

Author

Ray D. Bradbury

Publisher

Spectra Books

Collection

Grand Master Editions

Year

1985

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Pocket Book

Dimensions

17.6 x 10.8 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.13 kg.

ISBN

0553277537

ISBN13

9780553277531

Synopsis "Dandelion Wine (Grand Master Editions) (in English)"

The summer of '28 was a vintage 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. The only god living in Green Town, Illinois, that Douglas Spaulding knew of. The facts about John Huff, aged twelve, are simple and soon stated. - He could pathfind more trails than any Choctaw or Cherokee since time began. - Could leap from the sky like a chimpanzee from a vine. - Could live underwater two minutes and slide fifty yards downstream. - Could hit baseballs into apple trees, knocking down harvests. - Could jump six-foot orchard walls. - Ran laughing. - Sat easy. - Was not a bully. - Was kind. - Knew the words to all the cowboy songs and would teach you if you asked. - Knew the names of all the wild flowers and when the moon would rise or set and when the tides came in or out. He was, in fact, the only god living in the whole of Green Town, Illinois, during the twentieth century that Douglas Spaulding knew of. "[Ray] Bradbury is an authentic original."--Time

Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury nació el 22 de agosto de 1920 en Waukegan, Illinois, Estados Unidos. Durante la Gran Depresión se trasladó con su familia a Los Ángeles, donde se graduó en 1938 en Los Angeles High School. Su educación académica acabó ahí, pero continuó formándose por cuenta propia hasta que en 1943 se convirtió en escritor profesional. Sus obras más conocidas son «Crónicas marcianas» (1950), «El hombre ilustrado» (1951) y «Fahrenheit 451» (1953). Bradbury , además de novelas, también ha escrito innumerables guiones de televisión, ensayos y poemas. Su preocupación como escritor no solo se centra en cuestionarse el modo de vida actual, también se adentra en el reino de lo fantástico y maravilloso, con un estilo poético y a veces provocativo. En su niñez, Bradbury fue muy propenso a las pesadillas y horribles fantasías, que acabó por plasmar en sus relatos muchos años después.

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