Driving Blind
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The incomparable Ray Bradbury is in the driver's seat, off on twenty-one unforgettable excursions through fantasy, time and memory, and there are surprises waiting around every curve and behind each mile marker.
Across sun-baked border towns and darkened club cars, the author introduces a velvet-hooded stranger behind the wheel of a 1929 Studebaker alongside amateur card players lured into midnight wagers.
These stories summon two elderly sisters climbing into a dusty attic after thirty stolen love letters, while an ancient one-ring circus trembles under the weight of an arthritic camel and an aerialist suspended by her teeth. The journey promises to be a memorable one.
- Small Town Setting: An elderly matriarch barricades herself inside her upstairs bedroom, convinced that her grandson-in-law's newly installed kitchen disposal is an insatiable carnivore waiting to consume her.
- Unreliable Narrator: Dining in a Parisian restaurant window as a glamorous decoy, an impoverished art student is unable to tell whether his staged romance has become real.
- Also by This Author: Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man.
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In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. An Emmy Award winner for his teleplay The Halloween Tree and an Academy Award nominee, he was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, among many honors.
