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October Country

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By Ray Bradbury
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers - (William Morrow Company)
October Country
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Welcome to a land Ray Bradbury calls the Undiscovered Country of his imaginationthat vast territory of ideas, concepts, notions and conceits where the stories you now hold were born. Americas premier living author of short fiction, Bradbury has spent many lifetimes in this remarkable placestrolling through empty, shadowwashed fields at midnight; exploring longforgotten rooms gathering dust behind doors bolted years ago to keep strangers locked out.. and secrets locked in. The nights are longer in this country. The cold hours of darkness move like autumn mists deeper and deeper toward winter. But the moonlight reveals great magic hereand a breathtaking vista.The October Country is many places a picturesque Mexican village where death is a tourist attraction; a city beneath the city where drowned lovers are silently reunited; a carnival midway where a tiny mans most cherished fantasy can be fulfilled night after night. The October Countrys inhabitants live, dream, work, dieand sometimes live againdiscovering, often too late, the high price of citizenship. Here a glass jar can hold memories and nightmares; a womans newborn child can plot murder; and a mans skeleton can war against him. Here there is no escaping the dark stranger who lives upstairs...or the reaper who wields the world. Each of these stories is a wonder, imagined by an acclaimed taleteller writing from a place shadows. But there is astonishing beauty in these shadows, born from a prose that enchants and enthralls. Ray Bradburys The October Country is a land of metaphors that can chill like a longaftermidnight wind...as they lift the reader high above a sleeping Earth on the strange wings of Uncle Einar.

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85715 words85,715 words
352 pages352 pages
Lexile 780LLexile 780L

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9780380973873

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