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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  watertiger | Aug 24, 2009 |  I would recommend this to those who like drawn-out description of people and places, of the macabre with the touch of humor infused in it. Cecy as the mind & body traveller is unforgettable, as is the gorgeous Castillian flower Angelina Marguerite (her name evokes memories of A. Rice's "Mayfair Witches" who's in haste to live--for as days pass--so does her years/life span. According to the Family (as spoken through Grandmere Nef): "You the living are blind...You who walk the earth know only the moment, which is whisked away with your next exhalation. Because you move and live, you cannot keep." In the end, I take this message away with me: "Death is mysterious. Life even more so. Choose. And whether you blow away in dust at life's end or arrive at youngness and go back to birth and within birth, that is stranger than strange, yes?" Book Details: Title From The Dust Returned Author Ray Bradbury Reviewed By Purplycookie (  ) | Apr 10, 2009 | edit | |   - Bradbury's version of the Addams family- excellent read for Halloween (  ) cmcgough | Nov 15, 2008 | 9.0  Listener42 | Sep 1, 2008 | Part fairy tale part fantasy, with a touch of magical realism, a book assembled out of a number of short stories written over much of Ray Bradbury's life. All the bits fit together reasonably well but it left me feeling vaguely unsatisfied. Interesting ( ) wendyrey | Aug 5, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0380789612, Mass Market Paperback)High on a hill by a forked tree, the House beckons its family homeward, and they come--travelers from the lyrical, lush imagination of Ray Bradbury.From the Dust Returned chronicles a community of eternal beings: a mummified matriarch who speaks in dust; a sleeping daughter who lives through the eyes and ears of the creatures she visits in her dreams; an uncle with wings like sea-green sails. And there is also the mortal child Timothy, the foundling son who yearns to be like those he loves: to fly, to sleep in daytime, and to live forever. Instead, his task is to witness the family's struggle with the startling possibility of its own end. Bradbury is deservedly recognized as a master of lyricism and delicate mood. In this novel he weaves together individuals' stories and the overarching family crisis into a softly whispered, seductive tale of longing and loss, death and life in the shadowy places. --Roz Genessee (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:56 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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Bradbury had planned to do collaborative work with the Addams family artist, but the plan never came completely to fruition. You have here the author who has inspired countless science fiction authors, and the artist whose work has obviously influenced artists like Timothy Burton.
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