The October country: Stories
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (783 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00072IRPQ |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Wonderful--review of each story" according to Sarah B. I was missing some of the Bradbury stories I read as a child and picked this up, not remembering if it held any of my favorites. All of the stories were new to me, and completely delightful--in each, Bradbury chooses an imaginative theme and iterates on it with beautiful, viscera. "Essential Short Story Collection by an Essential Author!" according to Ryan Costantino. Ray Bradbury's name is synonymous with imagination and in this collection of short stories he proves that beyond a reasonable doubt. I know, I used to cringe at his name. That is before I learned that he didn't just write science fiction (a genre of which I am not too fond). Thes. Good reading. Excellent book! Owned it years ago but it disappeared. Happy to have it back!
Lovecraft, Rod Serling, Bram Stoker, Stephen King,and writers of other classic horror stories, will be captivated by TheOctober Country’s nineteen astonishing tales. “ . . . that country where it is always turning late in theyear. Readers of The Martian Chronicles and TheIllustrated Man, as well as fans of H. From drowned cities tofrantic carnivals to forgotten Mexican villages, Bradbury offers anunforgettable journey into mystery, shining brief lights upon the darkestcorners of the soul. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnightsstay . . . ”Explore the outer limits of the imagination with the GrandMaster of American Literature, Ray Bradbury, in a dark and disquieting descentinto The October Country. P.
Electrico, in 1932. 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 magici
Each of the stories in Ray Bradbury’s masterful collection is a wonder, imagined by an acclaimed tale-teller writing from a place of shadows. But there is astonishing beauty here as well, born from a prose that enchants and enthralls, that chills like a long-after-midnight wind, that lifts the reader high above a sleeping Earth on strange wings. From the Back CoverThe 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. In The October Country, there is no escaping the dark stranger who lives upstairs or the reaper who wields the world.