The cloth cover is slightly faded on the spine. The dust jacket inside is slightly toned along the upper edge. Visit for more first edition children's books.Ĭondition*: Near Fine/Very Good. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about.'ĭiscover more of Ray Bradbury's great work at Goodreads. Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. I was amused and somewhat astonished at a critic a few years back who wrote an article analyzing Dandelion Wine plus the more realistic works of Sinclair Lewis, wondering how I oculd have been born and raising in Waukegan, which I renamed Green Town for my novel, and not noticed how ugly the harbor was and how depressing the coal docks and railyards down below the town.īut of course, I had noticed them and, genetic enchanter that I was, was fascinated by their beauty. 'Dandelion Wine is nothing if it is not the boy-hid-in-the-man playing in the fields of the Lord on the green grass of other Augusts in the midst of starting to grow up, grow old, and sense darkness waiting under the trees to seed the blood.' In the introduction to this 1975 edition, he writes: In the summer, Spaulding's grandfather makes dandelion wine, the season of Bradbury's life that he'd bottle if he could. Likewise, Dandelion Wine is a collection of short stories, written over a period of years, about 12 year-old Douglas Spaulding's boyhood in Green Town, loosely based on Bradbury's own boyhood and fond memories of growing up in Waukegan, Illinois. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.' 'My stories run up and bite me in the leg - I respond by writing them down - everything that goes on during the bite.

For which his many fans are most grateful. Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), author and screenwriter, wrote science fiction, fantasy, and horror but is remembered for bringing science fiction into the literary mainstream. A collection of short stories loosely based on Bradbury's boyhood in Waukegan, Illinois. A 1975 reissue of Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury with updated author introduction.

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