Ray Bradbury

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Gr 10 Up-Students faced with the daunting prospect of a literary research paper will surely applaud the arrival of this book. It provides scholarly insight into and critical analysis of Bradbury's major themes. Although the essays were originally written for an adult audience, most will be accessible to teens. Each chapter was written by a different author and can stand alone. Together they treat Bradbury's invasion stories and Mars stories, his use of the Gothic tradition and the frontier myth, his Cold War novels, the role of children in his works, and there is a discussion of "The Golden Apples of the Sun." There is also an essay by Bradbury on the rebirth of imagination. Those students who are not quite ready for sophisticated critical analysis may want to start with Robin Anne Reid's Ray Bradbury (Greenwood, 2000). Both books should be in libraries whose patrons take science fiction-and Bradbury-seriously.Marilyn Heath, East Tennessee State University, Johnson CityCopyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Book Description
The author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles is among the bestknown science fiction/fantasy writers today. This title, Ray Bradbury, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of Ray Bradbury through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Ray Bradbury, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.


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Gr 10 Up-Students faced with the daunting prospect of a literary research paper will surely applaud the arrival of this book. It provides scholarly insight into and critical analysis of Bradbury's major themes. Although the essays were originally written for an adult audience, most will be accessible to teens. Each chapter was written by a different author and can stand alone. Together they treat Bradbury's invasion stories and Mars stories, his use of the Gothic tradition and the frontier myth, his Cold War novels, the role of children in his works, and there is a discussion of "The Golden Apples of the Sun." There is also an essay by Bradbury on the rebirth of imagination. Those students who are not quite ready for sophisticated critical analysis may want to start with Robin Anne Reid's Ray Bradbury (Greenwood, 2000). Both books should be in libraries whose patrons take science fiction-and Bradbury-seriously.-Marilyn Heath, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.


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