The Illustrated Man.nfo
General Information
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Title: The Illustrated Man
Author: Ray Bradbury
Read By: Scott Brick
Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy: Short Stories & Anthologies
Copyright: 1979
Audiobook Copyright: 2010
Publisher: Tantor
Release date: 2010-08-11
Duration: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Book Description
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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 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 grey dust settling 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. 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.
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