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Afficher les exemplaires de cette édition ISBNIn a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury, who died on June 5, 2011 at the age of 91, inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He wrote the screen play for John Huston's classic film adaptation of Moby Dick, and was nominated for an Academy Award. He adapted sixty-five of his stories for television's The Ray Bradbury Theater, and won an Emmy for his teleplay of The Halloween Tree. 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 magician, Mr. Electrico, in 1932. At the end of his performance Electrico reached out to the twelve-year-old Bradbury, touched the boy with his sword, and commanded, "Live forever!" Bradbury later said, "I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped."
Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early 1950s.
Toiling away amid the looming palm trees and decaying bungalows, a struggling young writer (who bears a resemblance to the author) spins fantastic stories from his fertile imagination upon his clacking typewriter. Trying not to miss his girlfriend (away studying in Mexico), the nameless writer steadily crafts his literary effort--until strange things begin happening around him.
Starting with a series of peculiar phone calls, the writer then finds clumps of seaweed on his doorstep. But as the incidents escalate, his friends fall victim to a series of mysterious "accidents"--some of them fatal. Aided by Elmo Crumley, a savvy, street-smart detective, and a reclusive actress of yesteryear with an intense hunger for life, the wordsmith sets out to find the connection between the bizarre events, and in doing so, uncovers the truth about his own creative abilities.
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Description du livre Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. A UK paperback edition which states Special Overseas Edition 1986, reprinted 1987. In very good condition for its age. Heavy age tanning to pages making them rather brown but still eminently readable. Covers are showing signs of wear to extremities. Slight damage to leading edge of cover and also at the top edge of the rear cover. First book in the Crumley Series. SYNOPSIS: "Venice, California 1949. They were knocking down the arcade and the roller coaster lay scattered on the ground like dinosaur bones. On the late train back a drunk sat down behind me and whispered of Death between wine-dark teeth. I didn't turn round. I shivered. I needed a drink. Later I took a wrong turn outside a bar and walked past the canals where the tide sucked through the empty cages of the abandoned circus. In one the body of an old man undulated with the swell like a ghostly lion-tamer. And I screamed." Packed weight 240gms. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH. N° de réf. du vendeur 4777
Description du livre Softcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. 1987 reprint . Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 271 pages. Item Type: Book. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's signature in ink. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Crime Fiction; ; . ISBN: 0586068775. ISBN/EAN: 9780586068779. Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 030115. N° de réf. du vendeur 030115