Ray Bradbury unbound /
Fully established in the slick magazines, award-winning, and on the brink of placing Fahrenheit 451 in the American canon, Ray Bradbury entered the autumn of 1953 as a literary figure transcending fantasy and science fiction. Here, author Eller continues the story begun in his acclaimed Becoming Ray...
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University of Illinois Press,
2014
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: A place in the sun. Loomings ; Strangers in a strange land ; Indecisions, visions, and revisions ; Fatal attraction ; A whale of a tale ; "Floreat!" ; A place in the sun
- Part II: The end of the beginning. Post-scripts ; Invitations to the dance ; Pictures within pictures : The October country ; Laughton and Hitchcock ; "The first to catch a circus in a lie is a boy" ; Various wines ; The end of the beginning
- Part III: Dark carnivals. Strange interlude: Dandelion wine ; Return to Hollywood ; "And the rock cried out" ; Berenson at Sunset ; The unforeseen ; Dreams deferred ; The great wide world ; The Dreamers ; Dark carnivals
- Part IV: "Cry the cosmos." Medicines for melancholy ; Escape velocity ; Martian odyssey ; "Cry the cosmos" ; In the twilight zone ; Something wicked this way comes ; Out of the deeps ; Machineries of joy
- Part V: If the sun dies. A backward glance ; Stops of various quills ; The world of Ray Bradbury ; If the sun dies ; Truffaut's Phoenix ; A colder eye ; The isolated man ; A touch of the poet ; "Christus Apollo" ; "Take me home."
