The October Country读书介绍
类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
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书籍 | 352页 | 2020 | Avon Books |
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USD 18.99 | 2020-02-20 … | 2020-08-23 … | 49 |
Welcome to a land Ray Bradbury calls "the Undiscovered Country" of his imagination--that vast territory of ideas, concepts, notions and conceits where the stories you now hold were born. America's premier living author of short fiction, Bradbury has spent many lifetimes in this remarkable place--strolling through empty, shadow-washed fields at midnight; exploring long-forgotten rooms gathering dust behind doors bolted years ago to keep strangers locked out.. and secrets locked in. The nights are longer in this country. The cold hours of darkness move like autumn mists deeper and deeper toward winter. But the moonlight reveals great magic here--and a breathtaking vista. The October Country is many places: a picturesque Mexican village where death is a tourist attraction; a city beneath the city where drowned lovers are silently reunited; a carnival midway where a tiny man's most cherished fantasy can be fulfilled night after night. The October Country's inhabitants live, dream, work, die--and sometimes live again--discovering, often too late, the high price of citizenship. Here a glass jar can hold memories and nightmares; a woman's newborn child can plot murder; and a man's skeleton can war against him. Here there is no escaping the dark stranger who lives upstairs...or the reaper who wields the world. Each of these stories is a wonder, imagined by an acclaimed tale-teller writing from a place shadows. But there is astonishing beauty in these shadows, born from a prose that enchants and enthralls. Ray Bradbury's The October Country is a land of metaphors that can chill like a long-after-midnight wind...as they lift the reader high above a sleeping Earth on the strange wings of Uncle Einar.
作者简介雷•布拉德伯里(1920-2012)Ray Bradbury
生于美国伊利诺伊州的沃基根。自一九四三年开始专业写作。他七十多年的写作生涯,激励了数代读者去幻想、思考和创新。他创作了数百篇短篇小说,出版近五十本书,此外还写了大量的诗歌、随笔、戏剧、电视和电影剧本。
《华氏451》和《火星编年史》是他最为著名的作品,奠定了其科幻小说大师的地位。他被誉为二十世纪最重要的美国作家之一,“将现代科幻领入主流文学领域最重要的人物”。曾获二〇〇〇年美国国家图书基金会卓越成就奖,二〇〇四年美国国家艺术奖章和二〇〇七年普利策特别褒扬奖。
二〇一二年六月六日,九十一岁高龄的布拉德伯里病逝于洛杉矶。时任美国总统的巴拉克•奥巴马亲致悼词:“他的叙事才华重塑了我们的文化,拓宽了我们的世界。”。
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