The Illustrated Man Hardcover - 1997
by Ray Bradbury
Classic Bradbury, this collection of tales offers images that are as keen as a tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that stain the body. Featuring a new Introduction, "The Illustrated Man" presents 18 startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin.
From the rear cover
Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. A peerless American storyteller, his oeuvre has been celebrated for decades--from The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 to Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes.
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 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.
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.
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- Title The Illustrated Man
- Author Ray Bradbury
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company, Dresden, Tennessee, U.s.a.
- Date 1997-06-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780380973842 / 0380973847
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 7.1 x 5.4 x 1.1 in (18.03 x 13.72 x 2.79 cm)
- Reading level 680
- Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, American
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97093228
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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