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The October country

Auteur : Ray Bradbury
Éditeur : New York : Wm. Morrow, 2003.
Édition/format :  Livre : Fiction : AnglaisVoir toutes les éditions et les formats
Résumé :
Ordinary people are caught up in unreal situations in these 19 strange stories. Welcome to a land Ray Bradbury calls "the Undiscovered Country" of his imagination--that vast territory of ideas, concepts, notions and conceits where the stories you now hold were born. America's premier living author of short fiction, Bradbury has spent many lifetimes in this remarkable place--strolling through empty, shadow-washed  Lire la suite...
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Type d’ouvrage : Fiction
Format : Livre
Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : Ray Bradbury
ISBN : 0380973871 9780380973873
Numéro OCLC : 52473397
Description : xii, 334 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Contenu : Homesteading the October country --
The dwarf --
The next in line --
The watchful poker chip of H. Matisse --
Skeleton --
The jar --
The lake --
The emissary --
Touched with fire --
The small assassin --
The crowd --
Jack-in-the-box --
The scythe --
Uncle Einar --
The wind --
The man upstairs --
There was an old woman --
The cistern --
Homecoming --
The wonderful death of Dudley Stone.
Responsabilité : Ray Bradbury ; illustrated by Joe Mugnaini.

Résumé :

Ordinary people are caught up in unreal situations in these 19 strange stories. Welcome to a land Ray Bradbury calls "the Undiscovered Country" of his imagination--that vast territory of ideas, concepts, notions and conceits where the stories you now hold were born. America's premier living author of short fiction, Bradbury has spent many lifetimes in this remarkable place--strolling through empty, shadow-washed fields at midnight; exploring long-forgotten rooms gathering dust behind doors bolted years ago to keep strangers locked out. and secrets locked in. The nights are longer in this country. The cold hours of darkness move like autumn mists deeper and deeper toward winter. But the moonlight reveals great magic here--and a breathtaking vista. The October Country is many places: a picturesque Mexican village where death is a tourist attraction; a city beneath the city where drowned lovers are silently reunited; a carnival midway where a tiny man's most cherished fantasy can be fulfilled night after night. The October Country's inhabitants live, dream, work, die--and sometimes live again--discovering, often too late, the high price of citizenship. Here a glass jar can hold memories and nightmares; a woman's newborn child can plot murder; and a man's skeleton can war against him. Here there is no escaping the dark stranger who lives upstairs...or the reaper who wields the world. Each of these stories is a wonder, imagined by an acclaimed tale-teller writing from a place shadows. But there is astonishing beauty in these shadows, born from a prose that enchants and enthralls. Ray Bradbury's The October Country is a land of metaphors that can chill like a long-after-midnight wind...as they lift the reader high above a sleeping Earth on the strange wings of Uncle Einar.

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