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"On a dismal evening, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door - and once again admits a dangerous icon into his life.
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Nostalgic, grave, plot-driven and bleak.
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- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Ray Bradbury
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Avon, Domino, W. Morrow
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English, Spanish, Russian
- ISBN
- 9788445074978
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“It was a dark and stormy night.”
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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