Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury
Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury
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Dandelion Wine

Author: Ray Bradbury

Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia

Unabridged: 8 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/24/2011

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Ray Bradburys 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 authors most deeply personal work, a semiautobiographical recollection of a magical smalltown summer in 1928. Twelveyearold 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 brandnew tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfathers renowned intoxicant, the distant clang of the trolleys 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 Bradburys priceless distillation of all that is eternal about boyhood and summer.

About Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. He became a full-time writer in 1943 and contributed numerous short stories to periodicals before publishing a collection of them, Dark Carnival, in 1947.
His reputation as a writer of courage and vision was established with the publication of The Martian Chronicles in 1950, which describes Earthlings' first attempts to conquer and colonize Mars and the unintended consequences. Next came The Illustrated Man and Fahrenheit 451, which many consider to be Bradbury's masterpiece. Other works by Bradbury include The October Country, Dandelion Wine, A Medicine for Melancholy, Something Wicked This Way Comes, I Sing the Body Electric! Quicker Than the Eye, and Driving Blind. In all, Bradbury published more than thirty books and close to six hundred short stories. He has been awarded the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the PEN Center USA West Lifetime Achievement Award, among others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Peter D on July 02, 2007

The only reason I gave this book five stars was because I couldn't give it five thousand. I can't express how beautiful this book is. I've never cried so hard (no, not even when Mrs. Johnson read us "Where the Red Fern Grows" in the third grade), nor have I felt so much love from a bunch of grouped t......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on February 26, 2017

Magic Realism - according to Wikipedia "Magical realism, magic realism, or marvelous realism is a genre of narrative fiction and, more broadly, art (literature, painting, film, theatre, etc.) that, while encompassing a range of subtly different concepts, expresses a primarily realistic view of the re......more

Goodreads review by Vit on October 24, 2023

Dandelion wine stands for memory and in Dandelion Wine memory plays the leading role. And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing through a faint skin of dust, would stand the dandelion wine. Peer through it at the wintry day – th......more

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