Farewell Summer

Bradbury, Ray

ISBN 10: 0792745191 ISBN 13: 9780792745198

Publisher: Blackstone Pub, 2006

Synopsis

October first, the air is still warm, but fall is rolling in. Thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaulding, his younger brother Tom, and their friends do their best to take advantage of these last warm days, rampaging through the ravine, tormenting the girls, and declaring war on the old men who run Green Town, IL. For the boys know that Mr. Quartermain and his cohorts want nothing more than to force them to put away their wild ways, to settle down, to grow up. If only, the boys believe, they could stop the clock atop the courthouse building. Then, surely, they could hold onto the last days of summer—and their youth. But the old men were young once, too. And Quartermain, crusty old guardian of the school board and town curfew, is bent on teaching the boys a lesson. What he doesn’t know is that before the last leaf turns, the boys will give him a gift: they will teach him the importance of not being afraid of letting go.

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Review

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

"Almost no one can imagine a time or place without the fiction of Ray Bradbury..." The Washington Post

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

'The sheer velocity of his words is an apocalyptic torrent which sweeps the reader on' Independent

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

About the Author

Ray Bradbury has published some 500 short stories, novels, plays and poems since his first story appeared in Weird Tales when he was twenty years old. Among his many famous works are The Illustrated Man and The Martian Chronicles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackstone Pub
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0792745191
• ISBN 13: 9780792745198
• Binding: Audio CD