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Essay Archive - Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury, a collection of poignant vignettes
about one summer in the life of 12-year old Douglas Spaulding, is a
powerful mirror into childhood, growing up, and life in general. Bradbury,
generally considered one of the Grand Masters of science fiction, did not
in fact write science fiction. While his books and stories had some of the
overtones of science fiction, their themes went much deeper than simple
space opera or shoot-'em-up action. His books were often quite surrealistic
and were very emotional. (Wolfheim 42) Critiquing Bradbury is difficult as
it dulls the fant....
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