Il popolo dell'autunno

by Ray Bradbury, Remo Alessi (Translator)

Overview

Green Town, anonimo centro dell'Illinois. Manca una settimana alla festa di Halloween, quando la sonnacchiosa cittadina viene sconvolta da un "carnevale nero" scatenato da un circo misterioso che sembra promettere l'avverarsi di tutti i desideri e l'eterna giovinezza. Saranno due amici tredicenni, James Nightshade e William Halloway, a sconfiggere le forze del Male e a riscattare le anime dell'intera comunità. Ma impareranno fin troppo presto a fare i conti con i propri incubi. Capolavoro della moderna letteratura gotica, Il popolo dell'autunno rivela al lettore, attraverso lo sguardo libero e curioso dei bambini, tutta la maturità di uno dei massimi scrittori contemporanei di fantascienza.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788852040078
Publisher:	MONDADORI
Publication date:	07/02/2013
Sold by:	ARNOLDO MONDADORI - EBKS
Format:	eBook
File size:	957 KB
Language:	Italian

About the Author

Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than 500 published works -- short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse -- exemplify the American imagination at its most creative.

Once read, his words are never forgotten. His best-known and most beloved books -- The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Fahrenheit 451, and Something Wicked This Way Comes -- are masterworks that readers carry with them over a lifetime. His timeless, constant appeal to audiences young and old has proven him to be one of the truly classic authors of the 20th Century -- and the 21st.

Ray Bradbury's work has been included in several Best American Short Story collections. He has been awarded the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the PEN Center USA West Lifetime Achievement Award, among others. In recognition of his stature in the world of literature and the impact he has had on so many for so many years, Bradbury was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2000 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and the National Medal of Arts in 2004.

On the occasion of his 80th birthday in August 2000, Bradbury said, "The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. The feeling I have every day is very much the same as it was when I was twelve. In any event, here I am, eighty years old, feeling no different, full of a great sense of joy, and glad for the long life that has been allowed me. I have good plans for the next ten or twenty years, and I hope you'll come along."

Hometown:

Los Angeles, California

Date of Birth:

August 22, 1920

Place of Birth:

Waukegan, Illinois

Education:

Attended schools in Waukegan, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California

Website:

http://www.raybradbury.com