Farewell Summer: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Content deleted Content added

Inline

Latest revision as of 13:13, 16 March 2024

Farewell Summer

Author	Ray Bradbury
Language	English
Genre	Autobiographical novel
Publisher	William Morrow
Publication date	October 17, 2006
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	224
ISBN	0-06-113154-7
OCLC	70335478
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 22
LC Class	PS3503.R167 F45 2006
Preceded by	Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes

Farewell Summer is a novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, published on October 17, 2006. It was his last novel released in his lifetime. It is a sequel to his 1957 novel Dandelion Wine, and is set during an Indian summer in October 1929. The story concerns a mock war between the young and the old in Green Town, Illinois, and the sexual awakening of Doug Spaulding as he turns 14. With Something Wicked This Way Comes, they form a trilogy of novels inspired by Bradbury's childhood in Waukegan, Illinois.

The first chapter, also titled Farewell Summer, appeared in The Stories of Ray Bradbury in 1980. Jonathan R. Eller and William F. Touponce discuss a draft of the unpublished novel in some detail in their book, Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction (2004).

Publishers Weekly called the novel a "poignant, wise but slight 'extension' of the indefatigable Bradbury's semiautobiographical Dandelion Wine" and concluded, "Bradbury's mature but fresh return to his beloved early writing conveys a depth of feeling." Kirkus Reviews found it "a thin work, heavily reliant on dialogue, but one that serves as an intriguing coda to one of Bradbury's classics." Booklist said, "A touching meditation on memories, aging, and the endless cycle of birth and death, and a fitting capstone, perhaps, to a brilliant career."

History

[edit]

In the afterword to Farewell Summer, Bradbury ... contends that the novel was actually intended to follow what became the Dandelion Wine story arc as a complete book tentatively titled Summer Morning, Summer Night. "When I delivered it to my publishers they said, 'My God, this is much too long. Why don't we publish the first 90,000 words as a novel and keep the second part for some future year when it is ready to be published'" (pp. 207–208).^[1]

References

[edit]

^ "Strange Horizons Reviews: Farewell Summer by Ray Bradbury, reviewed by David Soyka". Archived from the original on 2007-12-09. Retrieved 2007-12-11.

External links

[edit]

Farewell Summer title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Dust jacket of Farewell Summer

v t e Ray Bradbury
Bibliography (Short fiction)
Novels	The Martian Chronicles (1950) Fahrenheit 451 (1953) Dandelion Wine (1957) Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) The Halloween Tree (1972) Death Is a Lonely Business (1985) A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990) Green Shadows, White Whale (1992) From the Dust Returned (2001) Let's All Kill Constance (2002) Farewell Summer (2006)
Short stories	"Hollerbochen's Dilemma" (1938) "The Scythe" (1943) "I, Rocket" (1944) "The Lake" (1944) "Frost and Fire" (1946) "The Million Year Picnic" (1946) "The Small Assassin" (1946) "I See You Never" (1947) "Fever Dream" (1948) "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl" (1948) "The Long Years" (1948) "Mars Is Heaven!" (1948) "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed" (1949) "The Exiles" (1949) "Marionettes, Inc." (1949) "The Long Rain" (1950) "The Rocket" (1950) "There Will Come Soft Rains" (1950) "The Veldt" (1950) "Ylla" (1950) "Embroidery" (1951) "The Fog Horn" (1951) "Here There Be Tygers" (1951) "The Pedestrian" (1951) "The April Witch" (1952) "A Sound of Thunder" (1952) "The Wilderness" (1952) "The Flying Machine" (1953) "The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind" (1953) "The Meadow" (1953) "The Murderer" (1953) "Sun and Shadow" (1953) "All Summer in a Day" (1954) "The Dragon" (1955) "The Aqueduct" (1979) "Banshee" (1984) "The Toynbee Convector" (1984) "Is That You, Herb?" (2003)
Collections	Dark Carnival (1947) The Illustrated Man (1951) The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953) The October Country (1955) A Medicine for Melancholy (1959) The Day It Rained Forever (1959) The Small Assassin (1962) R Is for Rocket (1962) The Machineries of Joy (1964) The Vintage Bradbury (1965) S Is for Space (1966) Twice 22 (1966) I Sing the Body Electric! (1969) Ray Bradbury (1975) Long After Midnight (1976) The Fog Horn & Other Stories (1979) The Last Circus and the Electrocution (1980) The Stories of Ray Bradbury (1980) The Fog Horn and Other Stories (1980) Dinosaur Tales (1983) A Memory of Murder (1984) The Toynbee Convector (1988) Classic Stories 1 (1990) Classic Stories 2 (1990) The Parrot Who Met Papa (1991) Selected from Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed (1991) Quicker Than the Eye (1996) Driving Blind (1997) Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories (2001) One More for the Road (2002) Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2003) The Cat's Pajamas: Stories (2004) A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories (2005) The Dragon Who Ate His Tail (2007) Summer Morning, Summer Night (2007) A Pleasure to Burn (2010) The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury (2011, 2014)
Plays	The Meadow (1947) The Flying Machine: A One-Act Play for Three Men (1953) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and Other Plays (1972) Pillar of Fire and Other Plays (1975) The Martian Chronicles (1986) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1986) Fahrenheit 451 (1986) Dandelion Wine (1988) The Veldt (1988)
Adaptations	It Came from Outer Space (1953) Moby Dick (1956 screenplay) "I Sing the Body Electric" (1962) The Autumn People (1965) Tomorrow Midnight (1966) Fahrenheit 451 (1966) The Picasso Summer (1969) The Illustrated Man (1969) The Martian Chronicles (1980 miniseries) The Electric Grandmother (1982) Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) Bradbury 13 (radio series, 1983–84) Fahrenheit 451 (1984) "The Burning Man" (1985) The Veldt (1987) The Ray Bradbury Theater (TV series, 1985–86, 1988-1992) The Halloween Tree (1993) Dandelion Wine (1997) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998) A Sound of Thunder (2005) Ray Bradbury's Chrysalis (2008) The Whispers (2015) Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
Miscellaneous	Futuria Fantasia (1939–1940) The Mummies of Guanajuato (1978) Zen in the Art of Writing (1990) It Came from Outer Space (2003 book)
Characters	Guy Montag
Related	Bettina F. Bradbury (daughter) Spaceship Earth Ray Bradbury Center Bradbury Landing Ray Bradbury Award Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury Dandelion crater

This article about an autobiographical novel of the 2000s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Farewell_Summer&oldid=1214008936"

Categories:

Hidden categories:

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-{{About|the Bradbury novel|the Helen Hooven Santmyer novella|Farewell, Summer|the flower|Goldenrod}}
+{{About|the Bradbury novel|the Helen Hooven Santmyer novella|Farewell, Summer|the flower|Goldenrod|the 1992 Vietnamese film|Farewell Summer (film)}}
+{{short description|2006 novel by Ray Bradbury}}
 {{Infobox book |
 | name          = Farewell Summer
@@ Line 5: / Line 6: @@
 | translator    =
 | image         = Farewellsummer.jpg
-| image_size = 200px
+| image_size = 210px
 | alt = Hardback cover of Farewell Summer
 | caption =
@@ Line 35: / Line 36: @@
 == History ==
-In the afterword to ''Farewell Summer'', Bradbury ... contends that the novel was actually intended to follow what became the ''Dandelion Wine'' story arc as a complete book tentatively titled ''Summer Morning, Summer Night''. "When I delivered it to my publishers they said, 'My God, this is much too long. Why don't we publish the first 90,000 words as a novel and keep the second part for some future year when it is ready to be published'" (pp.&nbsp;207–208).<ref>[http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2006/12/farewell_summer.shtml]</ref>
+In the afterword to ''Farewell Summer'', Bradbury ... contends that the novel was actually intended to follow what became the ''Dandelion Wine'' story arc as a complete book tentatively titled ''Summer Morning, Summer Night''. "When I delivered it to my publishers they said, 'My God, this is much too long. Why don't we publish the first 90,000 words as a novel and keep the second part for some future year when it is ready to be published'" (pp.&nbsp;207–208).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2006/12/farewell_summer.shtml |title=Strange Horizons Reviews: Farewell Summer by Ray Bradbury, reviewed by David Soyka |access-date=2007-12-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071209074640/http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2006/12/farewell_summer.shtml |archive-date=2007-12-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
 ==References==
@@ Line 43: / Line 44: @@
 * {{Isfdb title|id=198627}}
 * [http://raybradburyboard.com/groupee_files/attachments/1/0/0/1001035812/1001035812_Farewell_Summer_Dust_Jacket.jpg?ts=44884C82&key=CA94248C982F36C9247D944D7F254A66&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Frp.liu233w.com%3A443%2Fhttp%2Fraybradburyboard.com%2Feve%2Fforums%2Fa%2Fga%2Ful%2F5891035812%2FFarewell_Summer_Dust_Jacket.jpg Dust jacket of ''Farewell Summer'']
 {{Ray Bradbury|state=collapsed}}
@@ Line 51: / Line 50: @@
 [[Category:2006 American novels]]
 [[Category:American autobiographical novels]]
 [[Category:Sequel novels]]
 [[Category:Novels set in Illinois]]
 [[Category:Fiction set in 1929]]
 [[Category:Waukegan, Illinois]]
+{{2000s-autobio-novel-stub}}