Now and Forever: Somewhere a Band Is Playing & Leviathan '99
by:
Ray Bradbury (author)
A journalist bearing terrible news leaps from a still-moving train into a small town of wonderful, impossible secrets . . . The doomed crew of a starship follows their blind, mad captain on a quest into deepest space to joust with destiny, eternity, and God Himself . . . Now and Forever is a...
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A journalist bearing terrible news leaps from a still-moving train into a small town of wonderful, impossible secrets . . . The doomed crew of a starship follows their blind, mad captain on a quest into deepest space to joust with destiny, eternity, and God Himself . . . Now and Forever is a bold new work from an incomparable artist whose stories have reshaped America's literary landscape. Two bewitching novellas—each distinctly different, yet uniquely Bradbury—demonstrate the breathtaking range of his undimmed talent and the irrepressible vitality of the mind, spirit, and heart of America's preeminent storyteller.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061131578 (0061131571)
ASIN: 61131571
Publish date: July 29th 2008
Publisher: Harper
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Considering the fact, that this is a „miscellany“ of only two novellas, I’ll try to keep this review short. Somewhere a Band is PlayingI surely appreciate the short introduction in which Bradbury writes about the different impressions and inspirations he gathered over the years that went into the ma...
Two novellas, published late in Bradbury's life, having gestated over decades Somewhere a Band is Playing Beautiful. A journalist sniffs a story and jumps off a train into a small town in Arizona, forgotten by the world. A story only Bradbury could make work ensues. As an aside, in the Introduct...
Para ser justos, deberían ser tres estrellas y media. ¿Por qué media? Porque la primera historia (En algún lugar toca una banda) plantea más interrogantes de los que resuelve. En cuanto a la segunda (Leviatán 99), un magnífico homenaje a Melville. Cambiamos a la ballena por un fantástico cometa, ret...
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