Golden Apples of the Sun, The

Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering body of work unmatched in metaphorical power by any other American storyteller. And here, presented in a new trade edition, are thirtytwo of his most famous talesprime examples of the poignant and mysterious poetry which Bradbury uniquely uncovers in the depths of the human soul, the otherwordly portraits of outr fascination which spring from the canvas of one of the centurys great men of imagination. From a lonely coastal lighthouse to a sixtymillionyearold safary, from the pouring rain of Venus to the ominous silence of a murder scene, Ray Bradbury is our surehanded guide not only to surprising and outrageous manifestations of the future, but also to the wonders of the present that we could never have imagined on our own.Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering body of work unmatched in metaphorical power by any other American storyteller. And here, presented in a new trade edition, are thirtytwo of his most famous talesprime examples of the poignant and mysterious poetry which Bradbury uniquely uncovers in the depths of the human soul, the otherwordly portraits of outre fascination which spring from the canvas of one of the centurys great men of imagination. From a lonely coastal lighthouse to a sixtymillionyearold safari, from the pouring rain of Venus to the ominous silence of a murder scene, Ray Bradbury is our surehanded guide not only to surprising and outrageous manifestations of the future, but also to the wonders of the present that we could never have imagined on our own.