Dandelion Wine

A Novel

De: Ray Bradbury

Narrado por: David Aaron Baker

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 semi-autobiographical 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 who can transport you back to the Civil War, or a sideshow automaton able to glimpse the bittersweet future.

As Perfect as a Summer Evening

Dandelion Wine is a meditation on the present slipping into the past, an instruction manual for how we say goodbye. I love the way it whispers its truth. I love the way that it buckles something inside me and releases the long slow breath I’ve been holding my whole life.

Many years ago, my young daughter and I took a road trip to meet Mr. Bradbury. This was the first book I asked him to sign, and afterwards, it was the one I held tightest. Dandelion Wine has been an important influence on my own writing, and it was wonderful to revisit it with this excellent recording.

Deeply nostalgic yet lighthearted

There is deep wisdom throughout this book. The imagery, the characters, the poignant expressions of human experience - this is a very. good. book.