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Douglas lay back on the dry planks of the veranda, utterly satisfied and reassured by those voices, which could speak for eternity, rolling like a torrent of murmurs over his body, over his closed eyelids, into his drowsy ears, forever.
The poignant memory of a magical summer in a Midwestern town in the USA. The Summer Wine is the wine made from dandelions, which Douglas Spaulding, the fictional persona of the author, bottles every year with his grandfather. In the warm and enchanting nature of Illinois, this summer is unlike the others; it has a special flavor, the last of his childhood summers.
The Summer Wine is a unique, captivating coming-of-age story from one of the greatest science fiction writers. Based on the experiences of Bradbury himself, who grew up in Waukegan in the 1920s, The Summer Wine is a intoxicating cocktail of cherished memories, forgiveness, magic, imagination, and above all, summers that felt like they went on forever.
Dazed by the sweet intoxication of the wine, the narrator observes beings and things whose outlines suddenly seem different. Magic and synesthesia invade this radiant nature. And the transformation occurs, the end of innocence, the beginning of adolescence.
The Summer Wine is a novel that differs from the rest of this master of anticipation's work. A poetic narrative emerging from the fragments of fragmented memory that attempts to rediscover the wonder of childhood within the forgotten recollections.
In 1971, the astronauts of Apollo 15 named a lunar crater Dandelion to honor Bradbury's novel.
COVER ART: Stanislas Zygart
Manufacturer
- Author
- Ray Bradbury
- Publisher
- Agra
- Original Title
- Dandelion Wine
- Publishers
- Agra
- Type
- Classical Literature, Social
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 352
- Release Date
- 7/2023
- Publication Date
- 2023
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789605055677
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