Now and Forever: Somewhere a Band Is Playing & Leviathan '99 - Hardcover

Bradbury, Ray

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061131563 ISBN 13: 9780061131561

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 2007

Synopsis

A two-in-one volume by the Academy Award-nominated writer includes the novellas Somewhere a Band Is Playing, in which a young writer discovers that all is not as it seems in a nostalgic community, and Leviathan '99, in which Ishmael Hunnicut Jones prepares for a first interstellar hunt. 50,000 first printing.

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Review:

‘A meditation on writing, inspiration, ageing and change, all deep themes lightly handled, both elegiac and suspenseful... There are echoes in it not only of Melville, but of Shakespeare, Whitman and Poe ... The language sings.’ The Times

‘Brilliant’ DeathRay

Praise for Ray Bradbury:

'It is impossible not to admire the vigour of his prose, similes and metaphors constantly cascading from his imagination' Spectator

'Bradbury has a remarkable range of intensity and vision' Sunday Times

‘Bradbury is an authentic original’ Time Magazine

‘No other writer uses language with greater originality and zest. he seems to be an American Dylan Thomas – with discipline’ Sunday Telegraph

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 & Co
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0061131563
• ISBN 13: 9780061131561
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 209