by Ray Bradbury. A nostalgic collection of stories by the celebrated author finds humor and tenderness in unexpected encounters. A few of these brief tales deliver the trademark Bradbury chill, such as The Reincarnate, in which a newly dead man harbors the doomed hope of rejoining the living. Or the creepy Fly Away Home, which sends to Mars rocket men who re-create buildings from their hometowns to keep from going mad. Other stories are sentimental character studies, such as Massinello Pietro, about a flamboyant man who keeps a menagerie that the neighborhood and the police see as a public nuisance, or Pietà Summer, an affecting boyhood memory about a sleep-deprived 13-year-old who's excited about the two circuses coming to town. (Check Catalog)
Thursday, March 5, 2009
We'll always have Paris : stories
by Ray Bradbury. A nostalgic collection of stories by the celebrated author finds humor and tenderness in unexpected encounters. A few of these brief tales deliver the trademark Bradbury chill, such as The Reincarnate, in which a newly dead man harbors the doomed hope of rejoining the living. Or the creepy Fly Away Home, which sends to Mars rocket men who re-create buildings from their hometowns to keep from going mad. Other stories are sentimental character studies, such as Massinello Pietro, about a flamboyant man who keeps a menagerie that the neighborhood and the police see as a public nuisance, or Pietà Summer, an affecting boyhood memory about a sleep-deprived 13-year-old who's excited about the two circuses coming to town. (Check Catalog)
