Let's All Kill Constance - Softcover

Bradbury, Ray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060561785 ISBN 13: 9780060561789

Publisher: William Morrow & Company, 2004

Synopsis

On a dismal evening in the previous century, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door and again admits Constance Rattigan into his life. An aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, Constance is running in fear from something she dares not acknowledge -- and vanishes as suddenly as she appeared, leaving the narrator two macabre books: twin listings of the Tinseltown dead and soon to be dead, with Constance's name included among them. And so begins an odyssey as dark as it is wondrous, as the writer sets off in a broken-down jalopy with his irascible sidekick Crumley to sift through the ashes of a bygone Hollywood -- a graveyard of ghosts and secrets where each twisted road leads to grim shrines and shattered dreams ... and, all too often, to death.

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Review:

"Madness, blackmail, murder and mayhem spell tricks and treats as Bradbury toes the fine line between reality and illusion."--Publishers Weekly

"Ray Bradbury remains a master storyteller, and his writing still cracks my hat."--Chicago Tribune

"Ray Bradbury's writing remains as rich and ripe as ever."--Washington Post Times-Herald

"Bradbury remains a conjurer."--Time magazine

"An irresistible tale which will be in demand, since it's only Bradbury's second novel since 1963. "--Library Journal

About the Author:

In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury, who died on June 5, 2011 at the age of 91, inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He wrote the screen play for John Huston's classic film adaptation of Moby Dick, and was nominated for an Academy Award. He adapted sixty-five of his stories for television's The Ray Bradbury Theater, and won an Emmy for his teleplay of The Halloween Tree. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, among many honors.

Throughout his life, Bradbury liked to recount the story of meeting a carnival magician, Mr. Electrico, in 1932. At the end of his performance Electrico reached out to the twelve-year-old Bradbury, touched the boy with his sword, and commanded, "Live forever!" Bradbury later said, "I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped."

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0060561785
• ISBN 13: 9780060561789
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 256