Over the course of a storied literary career that has spanned more than half a century, Ray Bradbury has taken us to wonderful places: across vast oceans to foreign lands, onto summer porches of small-town America, through dark and dangerous forests where predators wait, into the hypnotic mists of dream, back to a halcyon past to remember, forward into an exhilarating future, and rocketing … through outer space.
In We’ll Always Have Paris–a new collection of never-before-published stories–the inimitable Bradbury once again does what few writers have ever done as well. He delights us with prose that soars and sings. He surprises and inspires, exposing truths and provoking deep thought. He imagines great things and poignantly observes human foibles and frailties. He enchants us with the magic he mastered decades ago and still performs flawlessly. In these pages, radio voices become indomitable flesh and the dead arise to recapture life. There is joy in an eccentric old man’s dance for the world and wonder over the workings of humankind’s best friend, O Holy Dog. Whether he’s exploring the myriad ways to be reborn, or the circumstances that can make any man a killer, or returning us to Mars, Bradbury opens the world to us and beckons us in.
Get ready to travel far and wide once again with America’s preeminent storyteller. His tales will live forever. We will always have Bradbury–and for that reason, we are eternally blessed.
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Ray Bradbury is an unexpectedly lyrical writer. I have read his memoir “Dandelion Wine” at least 3 times, and I enjoyed this book as well. It makes me want to go back and reread some of his scifi that I enjoyed maybe 50 years ago, when I wasn’t so appreciative of good writing.
Not up to the clever and fascinating Ray Bradbury stories I have previously read.
Book of short stories by one of the best writers. Met him in the bookshop Shakespeare and Company in Paris In 1990.
In 2009, three years before his death, Ray Bradbury released a collection of short stories entitled, “We’ll always have Paris”. Honestly, it’s not his best work, but I’d give anything just to listen to Lennon screw around on the piano once more. And I enjoyed Bradbury screwing around on his typewriter, hitting some perfect notes, and a few way …
Not Bradbury’s best. Short stories, some appealing, some will make you think. Several viewed marriage or relationships through a nagative lens. A number seemed to have been written in the 1940’s or 1950’s. Only a few contain his usual eloquent description. Almost a series of rough sketches for ideas.
I love anything Bradbury writes. He is one of my favorite authors of Science fiction.
I don’t even know why these stories were put out in the first place. There are two or three that are any good.
It’s Bradbury, ergo excellent.
Classic, thought-provokin Ray Bradbury short stories.
This book was a disappointment although I did enjoy a few of the short stories.
If you like Ray Bradbury, you will enjoy these stories.
O have always liked Bradbury and find all his works great reading.
Didn’t catch my attention, too “different” for me…
I love Ray Bradbury, so this was a bonus read!
definitely not my favorite Bradbury, but still a good example of his creativity and way with words.
Ray Bradbury what else can you say!!!
Vintage Bradbury at his best!