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But as young Douglas is about to discover, summer can be more than the repetition of established rituals whose mystical power holds time at bay. It is yesteryear and tomorrow blended into an unforgettable always. It is a pair of brand-new tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfather's renowned intoxicant, the distant clang of the trolley's bell on a hazy afternoon. Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond the city limits. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author's most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928.

Ray Bradbury's moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels.

A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.|a Exported from Connexion by Eagle Valley and loaded with m2btab.b in 2018. |a City and town life |0 |z Illinois |0 |v Fiction. |a In the summer of 1928, Jan Huff, a 12-year-old who seemed able to do anything, was the only god Douglas Spaulding knew of.