Dandelion Wine

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / Science Fiction / Classic / Bradbury, Ray
On Shelf At: Traverwood Branch

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Beautiful submitted by romanticmind on July 11, 2015, 11:55am Bradbury's beautiful prose and episodic storytelling were like sipping cool, potent lemonade on a hot summer's day. Definitely give this one a read!

Didn't want it to end submitted by starkravin on June 20, 2017, 7:46pm Bradbury from a different angle; yet classic. Just like summer, I didn't want it to end. Don't read this during winter.

Great Sense of Place submitted by Meginator on June 24, 2020, 7:40pm Ray Bradbury had immense talent for immediately evoking a time and place, and his vision of late-1920s small-town summer Americana feels true to life even if it does seem a bit naive by today’s standards. The book consists of brief stories that together trace the passage of a single summer, loosely tied together by a framing narrative centered around Douglas Spaulding, a young boy whose sudden recognition of his own mortality supposedly forms the book’s emotional core. Doug’s ruminations seemed superficially mature to me, and though I appreciated the nostalgic scenery surrounding his various adventures, they never quite resonated with me in any meaningful way. What I did, however, enthusiastically appreciate is the darker tone of regret and the hints of danger that lurk under the surface throughout; indeed, the two best stories feature doomed love and a woman’s solo journey home at night, respectively. When Bradbury is at his best, as he is in these two stories, he can conjure emotions from his readers at will, but the overall product lacks that magical touch.