The Machineries of Joy

by Ray Bradbury

Book Overview

In this book you will meet: A Hollywood monster-maker whose Tyrannosaurus Rex suddenly becomes alarmingly lifelike A boy who raises giant mushrooms in his cellar - until the mushrooms begin to raise... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553028340
• ISBN13: 9780553028348
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Master at the Height of his Powers

This is vintage Bradbury - no punk, obscenity, fantasy, horror or sex. Just beautiful, succinct, wonderfully constructed short stories that give new meaning to the term "American Genius". The stories range in subject matter from religion to space to family to war but through it all Bradbury explores the meaning of being human in all its wondrous degrees. There is more poetry in this prose than in most English books of poetry. Every single story - I mean every one! - is excellent, thought provoking and haunting. What a writer!

one of his best short-story collections....

....I particularly liked "A Miracle of Rare Device." 21 tales by the master of the imaginative.