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The illustrated man / Ray Bradbury.

Summary:

The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury - a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin - visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast, empty space of stars and blackness ... the sight of gray dust selling over a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowhere ... the pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father's clothing. Here living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth, widely believed to be one of the Grandmaster's premier accomplishments: as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0380973847
  • ISBN: 9780380973842
  • ISBN: 9781451678185
  • ISBN: 1451678185
  • Physical Description: ix, 275 pages ; 19 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Avon Books, [1997]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Short stories originally published between 1948 and 1951.
Pagination, trim size, and publisher may vary.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: The illustrated man -- Veldt -- Kaleidoscope -- Other foot -- Highway -- Man -- Long rain -- Rocket man -- Last night of the world -- Exiles -- No particular night or morning -- Fox and the forest -- Visitor -- Concrete mixer -- Marionettes, Inc. -- City -- Zero hour -- Rocket -- Illustrated man.
Target Audience Note:
680L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.4 10 68901.
Subject:
Science fiction, American.
Genre:
Science fiction.
Short stories.

Available copies

  • 15 of 16 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Harnett County Library.

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