![]() ![]() ![]() May be surprised to find that Dandelion Wine is so firmly grounded in day-to-day reality-Bradbury's known as a sci-fi genius. Dandelion Wine, then, with its forty short chapters, is like the 1950s equivalent of YouTube videos.įans of Bradbury's earlier works, such as The Martian Chronicles and the dystopian classic Fahrenheit 451, Most of the short stories that make up the novel are Bradbury's semi-autobiographical remembrances of summer, which were published in magazines between 1946 and the book's release in 1957. single women in their thirties- Dandelion Wine is nothing if not a majorly nostalgic trip to the good old days for its author. ![]() However, despite the super creepy murders of three "old maids"-a.k.a. But in Green Town, Illinois, in the summer of 1928, the problem is staying alive. And he's super stoked with this realization. See, our man Douglas has a major epiphany while traipsing through the woods picking berries: He's alive. ![]() He also sets his mind to figuring out what a guy has to do to get himself a pair of Cream-Sponge Para Litefoot sneakers, as well as what's up with the killer in the ravine. What exactly is happiness, and can you build it out of scrap metal and paint it orange? That's just one of the many questions that perplex twelve-year-old Douglas Spalding in Ray Bradbury's 1957 classic, Dandelion Wine. ![]()
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