The illustrated man

by Ray Bradbury

Paperback, 1979

Collection

Status

Available

Description

Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction. Short Stories. HTML: You could hear the voices murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body. A peerless American storyteller, Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury�?? eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin. In this phantasmagoric sideshow, living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Provocative and powerful, Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth�??as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world… (more)

Publication

New York Bantam 1979

ISBN

0553132474 / 9780553132472

Pages

186

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1951-02 (Collection)
1948 (The Man)
1948 (The Visitor)
1950 (The Veldt)
1951 (The Rocket Man)
1950 (The Rocket)
1951 (The Other Foot)
1951 (No Particular Night or Morning)
1949 (Marionettes ∙ Inc)
1946 (The Long Rain)
1950 (The City)
1951 (The Last Night of the World)
1949 (Kaleidoscope)
1950 (The Highway)
1950 (The Fox and the Forest)
1951 (The Fire Ballons)
1949 (The Exiles)
1949 (The Concrete Mixer)
1947 (Zero Hour)
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