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Dandelion Wine: A Novel
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LENGTH9 hrs
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RELEASE DATE02-04-11
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Program TypeAudiobook
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Ray Bradbury’s moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author’s most deeply personal work, a semiautobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928.
Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond the city limits. It is a pair of brand-new tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfather’s renowned intoxicant, the distant clang of the trolley’s bell on a hazy afternoon. It is yesteryear and tomorrow blended into an unforgettable always. But as young Douglas is about to discover, summer can be more than the repetition of established rituals whose mystical power holds time at bay. It can be a best friend moving away, a human time machine that can transport you back to the Civil War, or a sideshow automaton able to glimpse the bittersweet future.
Come and savor Ray Bradbury’s priceless distillation of all that is eternal about boyhood and summer.
©1946 Ray Bradbury (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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“Bradbury is an authentic original.” (Time)
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"Fears and Glories of Childhood"
This mash-up book of Bradbury short stories works well as a novel (as did the Martian Chronicles). The book masterfully taps into the fears and glories of childhoood. I'm only sad that it took Bradbury's death to bump it up on my reading list. Of the two versions, I chose Paul Michael Garcia's version because the tone of his voice is youthful and I've found higher voices are easier for me to hear in the car. He did a good job, convincingly breathing life into the novel's wide variety of characters.
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