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Dandelion Wine
- Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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Summary
Ray Bradbury's moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author's most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928.
Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond the city limits. It is a pair of brand-new tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfather's renowned intoxicant, the distant clang of the trolley's bell on a hazy afternoon. It is yesteryear and tomorrow blended into an unforgettable always.
But as young Douglas is about to discover, summer can be more than the repetition of established rituals whose mystical power holds time at bay. It can be a best friend moving away, a human time machine who can transport you back to the Civil War, or a sideshow automaton able to glimpse the bittersweet future. Come and savor Ray Bradbury's priceless distillation of all that is eternal about boyhood and summer.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-03-24
a lovely story
I really enjoyed this story, it was innocent, it was warm, it is life. Read.
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- Sebrina Autumn Calkins
- 19-10-23
Exquisite Awfulness. I Loved It Until I Loathed It
I have never tasted dandelion wine, but I feel like I can conjure it to my lips. The aroma from the old, cloudy bottle is redolent of nostalgia; a cloying scent of freshly cut grass and your nan's culinary magic undercut by a sweaty, fetid, almost smegmacious, stench that coats the sinuses. The first sip effervescing on the tongue; an explosion of ecstacy, as if standing in Wonka's factory as the bombs fall. Every sweet and sour taste is there, so perfectly overwhelming in their apotheosis. Now the nose is running, mouth watering, tastebuds fizzing. The palette, now roused by this wondrous sensation, yawns and stretches, before rolling over and awaiting the flavours to bathe it. Boiling treacle reaches out with tentacles of nostalgia, strangling the palette, coating it in choking oil, even as the bittersweet bit in its mouth keeps it distracted. Your mouth is held open, a foie gras funnel forced down your gullet as the sickly, gritty substance is pushed inside. You choke and splutter, while faceless family members and your imaginary friends comfort you, whispering the exact exquisite words you always needed to hear to be complete. You feel calm for a moment, enjoying the embrace and savouring the sugary alcoholic bite, and what it's doing to you. The spigot is turns all the way, filling you with gloop, until you explode and lay among the tatters of everything else that wasn't in the recipe.
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- a lisa
- 06-03-24
heartbreaking and labyrinthine
the end of summer is the end of time, and the end of life, as humans with child-like innocence understand the inevitability of death. heartbreaking and labyrinthine novel, full of interesting metaphors.
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- Wayne Strachan
- 18-08-23
Time in a jar
I returned to this 35 years after I read it. It’s been there in the background for me all this time yet I barely remembered a word of it. So quite a strange nostalgic experience this time. It seems to represent the passing of time, from day to day, one year to the next, or century to century. This is one single summer, yet it is every summer. So I’ll continue remembering or misremembering this, a memory of summer in the warm sunshine. Forever.
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- m. berry
- 20-02-22
Brings back childhood wonder
Made me remember things from childhood I had forgotten. Also gave me a new found anticipation for summer.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-12-21
Beautiful words
Only two stars for the story as there is no plot as such. Just beautiful words read so well. Not what I expected from Ray Bradbury but definitely worth a listen.
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- Anonymous User
- 31-01-24
great listen
not one I recognised from.Ray Bradbury. but really enjoyed it.If you like a gentle read and a bit.of.nostalgia
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- marie
- 25-05-20
could not listen to it
I played the teaser before ordering this book but made a huge mistake. the actor thinks that all women talk in super high voices, pronounce all vowels long like singing and are hysterical... besides, the performance is somehow overacted and I just couldn't not continue to listen to it. finished at chapter 5 , so really can not evaluate the story.
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