Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury5/8/2023 ![]() 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.Ĭome and savor Ray Bradbury's priceless distillation of all that is eternal about boyhood and summer. 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 is yesteryear and tomorrow blended into an unforgettable always. Ray Bradburys moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. 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. 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. An original printing of the unpublished script for the musical version of this work, produced in New Yorks Lincoln Center in 1967, inscribed by Ray Bradbury. ![]() 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. ![]() Ray Bradbury's moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. About the Book During one golden summer in 1928, twelve-year-old Douglas and his brother wander in and out of the lives of their elders. ![]()
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