About the Book

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 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

Product Details

Media: MP3 CD Audio Product

Language: English

Publisher: Tantor Media

Edition: Unknown

ISBN-10: 1400168260

Publication Date: Aug. 17th, 2010

ISBN-13: 9781400168262

Dimensions: 6.73 x 7.61 x 0.67 inches

Shipping Weight: 0.18 lbs

• Categories: Science Fiction Short Stories