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| Original Title: | Dandelion Wine |
| ISBN: | 0671037706 (ISBN13: 9780671037703) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Green Town |
| Characters: | Douglas Spaulding, Tom Spaulding |
| Setting: | Illinois,1928(United States) |
Ray Bradbury
Paperback | Pages: 239 pages Rating: 4.09 | 51083 Users | 4324 Reviews
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| Title | : | Dandelion Wine (Green Town) |
| Author | : | Ray Bradbury |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 239 pages |
| Published | : | July 2000 by Earthlight (UK) (first published September 1957) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Science Fiction. Fantasy. Young Adult. Short Stories. Coming Of Age |
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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. Woven into the novel are the following short stories: Illumination, Dandelion Wine, Summer in the Air, Season of Sitting, The Happiness Machine, The Night, The Lawns of Summer, Season of Disbelief, The Last--the Very Last, The Green Machine, The Trolley, Statues, The Window, The Swan, The Whole Town's Sleeping, Goodbye Grandma, The Tarot Witch, Hotter Than Summer, Dinner at Dawn, The Magical Kitchen, Green Wine for Dreaming.Rating Based On Books Dandelion Wine (Green Town)
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My introduction to the fiction of Ray Bradbury is Dandelion Wine, his much-loved ode to small towns, summers and strangeness as only a twelve-year-old boy could discover it. Published in 1957, the book is not a short story collection per se but of the twenty-seven vignettes, ten had been published before: "Season of Disbelief" and "The Window" appeared in Collier's in 1950, "A Story About Love" in McCall's in 1951, "The Lawns of Summer" in Nations Business in 1952, "The Swan" in Cosmopolitan and"You want to see the real Happiness Machine? The one they patented a couple thousand years ago, it still runs, not good, all the time, no! but it runs. It's been here all along."Ray Bradbury ~~ Dandelion WineUncork and inhale slowly ...Ray Bradbury's book, Dandelion Wine is nearly perfect. You don't need me prattling on about it. Instead, get a hold of Dandelion Wine, and then read and reread it.
Boom! SO much better than Fahrenheit Thingy-Bobby.
"Dandelion Wine.... The words were summer on the tongue". We all love to travel, one way or another. That's why we read! To experience time; To experience new worlds; To experience...And sometimes, we find those peculiar time machines that take us to somewhere special. Let's say, a reminiscent of nostalgic childhood. That one is always special. My favorite in that category are To Kill a Mockingbird and Malgudi DaysNow I have Dandelion Wine... And It is different from all these books!In
I doubt if there has been a better book written about summer and boyhood than DANDELION WINE. Dan Simmon's Summer of Night of course comes to mind. But where Simmons gives us the delicious darkness, Bradbury's tale is a bit more full of light and magic. It's all about Green Town, Illinois in the early 20th century. There are no TV's, computers, or cell phones. Just small town citizens interacting as human beings should. It was a time of cigar stores and front porches and soda fountains. Young
Once I realized there wasn't going to be a plot, but instead a loosely connected set of vignettes about boys coming of age, I relaxed and enjoyed DANDELION WINE. I marked several pages that I wanted to quote in my review, but now find myself thinking that reviewing it is going to take some of the magic out of it for me. I absolutely adored the end, (Aunt Rose got sent packing!), and there's no doubt that this book is steeped in nostalgia, but overall, it was a little too wordy for me. I would
apparently my 1,000th rating! I should be stoked at the milestone I guess, but I was really digging how that 999 looked under my avatar. maybe I should go back and un-rate something and then just keep doing that as needed.
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