Bradbury Speaks: Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars

By Ray Bradbury

Book Overview

He is an American treasure; a clear-eyed fantasist without peer; a literary icon who has created wonder for the better part of seven decades. He has a moon crater named after him and a star on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame. He has been showered with accolades and honored with prizes galore, everything from an Emmy Award to the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has inspired generations of readers to dream, think, invent, believe, and fly. When Ray Bradbury speaks, it pays dividends in gold to everyone who listens. Collected between these covers are memories, ruminations, opinions, prophecies, and philosophies from one of the most influential and admired writers of our time: indelible boyhood experiences that molded the man, as well as his eye-opening, sometimes hilarious true adventures in the realm of the famous and adored; insightful, piquant, often biting, always fascinating reflections on humankind's past and future, and where we stand in the universe today; provocative and deeply affecting musings on the present state of art and the unparalleled glory of creation. As unique, unabashed, and irrepressible as the artist himself, here is an intimate portrait, painted with the master's own words, of the one and only Bradbury -- far more revealing than any mere memoir, for it opens windows not only into his life and work, but into his mind and heart as well. Ray Bradbury has something wonderful to say.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060585684
• ISBN13: 9780060585686
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

A Life Well Lived!

In this collection of Essays from one of the greatest authors to ever live, Ray Bradbury details many of the loves of his life: his friendship with Walt Disney, his sit-down with Bertrand Russell. His love for Paris and his strained relationship with Los Angeles and Hollywood. A fairy-tale of a life, yet it happened, and thankfully is entombed in this wonderful collection. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

Bradbury Speaks...

I got this for my daughter. It was just what she wanted. I got it quickly and it looked in brand new condition.

A rare glimpse into the mind of a brilliant writer...

Ray Bradbury has perhaps been the most author who has most influenced my own writing. When I saw this book, I had to have it. What a wonderful glimpse into the mind of a man who can turn language into music, who can make prose sing like poetry. From the first time I checked out one of his books at the library--when I was around nine or ten years old--he taught me that it's possible to transcend the the borders between genres. What a wonder to get a glimpse into the years that make up his life. The only reason I put four instead of five stars is that I'd like to see a true autobiography, in his own words, that looks over the eighty-plus years he's walked the earth.

For Bradbury Fans

Reading these essays, anecdotes, love letters and diatribes is like sitting in the room with Mr. Electrico himself. For Bradbury fans this is a sweet bottle of dandelion wine from the vintner himself. Much less formal than his usual writing, but much more personal because he just shoots from the hip here, and from the heart.