- Fiction, Ireland in fiction, Huston, John, in fiction, Film and video adaptations
This story tells about the Irish lives of the local people, about the formidable American genius who commandeered their island as his own, and about the young journeyman writer who discovered there the range of his own imagination.
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Grave, nostalgic, contemplative and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Ray Bradbury
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 266
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing, HarperCollins, Bt Bound
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780006476344
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- Fiction
- Ireland in fiction
- Huston, John, in fiction
- Film and video adaptations
- Sea in motion pictures in fiction
- Film adaptations in fiction
- Screenwriters in fiction
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- Bradbury, Ray, in fiction
- Film adaptations
Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than five hundred published works -- short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse -- exemplify the American imagination at its most creative. Once read, his words are never forgotten. His best-known and most beloved books, *The Martian Chronicles*, *The Illustrated Man*, *Fahrenheit 451* and *Something Wicked This Way Comes*, are masterworks that readers carry with them over a lifetime. His timeless, constant appeal to audiences young and old has proven him to be one of the truly classic authors of the 20th Century -- and the 21st. In recognition of his stature i
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