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From the Dust Returned (School & Library Binding)

by R. Bradbury (Author) "In the attic where the rain touched the roof softly on spring days and where you could feel the mantle of snow outside, a few..." (more)
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High on a hill by a forked tree, the House beckons its family homeward, and they come--travelers from the lyrical, lush imagination of Ray Bradbury.

From the Dust Returned chronicles a community of eternal beings: a mummified matriarch who speaks in dust; a sleeping daughter who lives through the eyes and ears of the creatures she visits in her dreams; an uncle with wings like sea-green sails. And there is also the mortal child Timothy, the foundling son who yearns to be like those he loves: to fly, to sleep in daytime, and to live forever. Instead, his task is to witness the family's struggle with the startling possibility of its own end.

Bradbury is deservedly recognized as a master of lyricism and delicate mood. In this novel he weaves together individuals' stories and the overarching family crisis into a softly whispered, seductive tale of longing and loss, death and life in the shadowy places. --Roz Genessee --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.



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If there's a fountain of youth, Bradbury has found it. In the 1940s, at the start of his extraordinary writing career, Bradbury produced a series of popular fantasy short stories about the Elliot family, an assortment of vampires and other odd creatures of various degrees of humanity living in a Victorian castle in the golden Indiana of his youth. More than half a century later, he has fashioned from these stories a novel, funny, beautiful, sad and wise, to rank with his finest work. Full of wide-eyed wonder and dazzling imagery, the stories retain as an integrated whole all their original freshness and charm. The plot is simplicity itself: the vampires and their weird kin gather for a homecoming and share memories. Among them are Timothy, a foundling, whose pet spider is named Arach (originally Spid), and Cecy, immobile in bed but able to enter the minds of others and control their actions. Once, Cecy got a young woman to treat an unwanted but worthy suitor more politely than she would have otherwise: "Peering down from the secret attic of this lovely head, Cecy yanked a hidden copper ventriloquist's wire and the pretty mouth popped wide: `Thank you.' " Einar, a winged man, acts as a kite for children, writing "a great and magical exclamation mark across a cloud!" Most memorable of a remarkable cast are A Thousand Times Great Grand-Mere, who had been "a pharaoh's daughter dressed in spider linens," and her husband, Grand-Pere, who after four thousand years still has ideas. "At your age!" she snaps. This book will shame the cynics and delight the true believers who never lost faith in their beloved author. (Oct. 8)2000 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

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3.0 out of 5 stars From the Dust Returned, Jul 20 2004
By Jacob Gest (Denver, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: From The Dust Returned (Mass Market Paperback)
From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury is a Halloween tale of an enchanted house in Illinois and it's peculiar residents.

I found this book to be slow going at first, almost as though the author wasn't sure where he planned to go with the book. It is actually a compiling of many short stories Bradbury has written over the years and often times I felt that the book lacked the flow it would have if it had been written in one go. The writing style is hard to describe, very embellished and relying more on description than events occurring. Still a good book and a main story line does reveal itself by the time the reader finishes the book. I would suggest some of the authors other works before this one although it was fun and a very quick read.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Bradbury's Written Better, Jul 16 2004
By Scott Burman "sburmann2" (Rochester Hills, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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He's done better. I thought it was empty.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Had a hard time... but worth it, Nov 18 2003
By Brady Hoyle (Seattle, WA.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: From The Dust Returned (Mass Market Paperback)
Ray Bradbury's imagination is an incredible thing as we've all come to know throughout the years. I've been a fan for a long time and read whatever I could find. However, this book seemed harder for me. Usually reading through his stories are a breeze, I think I finished the Illustrated Man in one night and the same with the Martian Chronicles. The stories just didn't seemed to mesh quite as good as his other books. But thats a small complaint and for the most part it comes together as a beautiful peace of literature and another installment of Ray Bradbury's science fiction poetry.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Delicate, Beautiful Images
From the Dust Returned is culled from a half century of ideas, images, and stories of Ray Bradbury and formed into a beautifully coherent whole that only on occasion shows its... Read more
Published on Aug 22 2003 by Ricky Hunter

5.0 out of 5 stars A great tale for young and old
Ray Bradbuy triumphs again in this masterwork about a family that is a little more than just odd. It has enough fantasy for younger readers to be captivated, nostalgic enough for... Read more
Published on Aug 17 2003 by Rebecca Shoemaker

4.0 out of 5 stars An Hour Younger Than a Minute Ago
The title of this review is a line referring to a reverse-aging angel that is just one of many strange and offbeat characters in this collection of vignettes from Bradbury. Read more
Published on May 14 2003 by doomsdayer520

3.0 out of 5 stars Musings of a magical mind
Ray Bradbury writes books that haunt you. It isn't just that they might (or might not) be ghost stories. Read more
Published on April 16 2003 by Andrea M. Charlton

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book, but disturbing end.
The book had a great storyline. Bradbury draws you into the characters. Bradbury takes you on a series of events that the family goes through. Read more
Published on Mar 30 2003

3.0 out of 5 stars Greatness of a small scale
From the Dust Returned is said to be Ray Bradbury's masterpiece. After all, it did take him fourty years to write it. Read more
Published on Mar 19 2003 by Sebastien Pharand

5.0 out of 5 stars Like a Fine Wine
Like a fine wine, Bradbury keeps getting better as he ages. Once again Bradbury has written a master work. Read more
Published on Jan 17 2003 by papaphilly

4.0 out of 5 stars As good as I remember him
I haven't read Bradbury in over 25 years, and reading From the Dust Returned really brought back good memories. It does not disappoint!
Published on Dec 29 2002 by Kevin J. Brusky

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful conglomeration of old and new writings
In 1945, Ray Bradbury published a story called "Homecoming" about an odd Family called the Elliotts. Since then, Bradbury has been revisiting the Family over the years. Read more
Published on Dec 20 2002 by Craig Clarke

5.0 out of 5 stars Cecy and Einar and the rest
From the Dust Returned: One of Bradbury's two greatest families (the other being the Green Town Spauldings) now under one cover. Read more
Published on Dec 9 2002 by Leganto

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