Based upon Bradbury's own experiences growing up in Waukegan in the 1920s, 'Dandelion Wine' is a heady mixture of fond memory, forgiveness, magic, the imagination and above all, of summers that seemed to go on forever. Distilling his experiences into 'Rites & Ceremonies' and 'Discoveries & Revelations', the young Spaulding wistfully ponders over magical tennis shoes, and machines for every purpose from time travel to happiness and silent travel. 'Dandelion Wine' is a quirky, breathtaking coming-of-age story from one of science fiction's greatest writers. Everyone up.'' In the backwaters of Illinois, Douglas Spaulding's grandfather makes an intoxicating brew from harvested dandelions. A sprinkle of windows came suddenly alight miles off in dawn country.

Yellow squares were cut in the dim morning earth as house lights winked slowly on. He exhaled again and again and the stars began to vanish. in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding-remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury. The street lights, like candles on a black cake, went out. 'He stood at the open window in the dark, took a deep breath and exhaled. Yet those who wish to experience the unique magic of early Bradbury as a prose stylist should find Dandelion Wine most refreshing.An endearing classic of childhood memories of an idyllic midwestern summer from the celebrated author of 'Farenheit 451'. No walking dead or spaceships to Mars here. The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. This tender, openly affectionate story of a young man’s voyage of discovery is certainly more mainstream than exotic. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury: 9780553277531 : Books The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. The summer of 28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. (For those who want to undertake an even more evocative look at the dark side of youth, five years later the author would write the chilling classic Something Wicked This Way Come s.)ĭandelion Wine takes us into the summer of 1928, and to all the wondrous and magical events in the life of a 12-year-old Midwestern boy named Douglas Spaulding. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the authors most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928. An unabashed romantic, his first novel in 1957 was basically a love letter to his childhood. Ray Bradburys moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. World-renowned fantasist Ray Bradbury has on several occasions stepped outside the arenas of horror, fantasy, and science fiction.

An unabashed romantic, his first novel in 1957 was basically a love letter to his childhood.