Following the success of his recent collections, "The Cat's Pajamas" and "One More for the Road," Bradbury has once again pulled together a stellar group of stories--eerie and strange, nostalgic and bittersweet, searching and speculative.
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Following the success of his recent collections, "The Cat's Pajamas" and "One More for the Road," Bradbury has once again pulled together a stellar group of stories--eerie and strange, nostalgic and bittersweet, searching and speculative.
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Like New in Very Good jacket. Size: 5x0x8; Remainder Mark bottom edge. In We'll Always Have Paris-a new collection of never-before-published stories-the inimitable Bradbury once again does what few writers have ever done as well. He delights us with prose that soars and sings. He surprises and inspires, exposing truths and provoking deep thought. He imagines great things and poignantly observes human foibles and frailties. He enchants us with the magic he mastered decades ago and still performs flawlessly. In these pages, radio voices become indomitable flesh and the dead arise to recapture life. There is joy in an eccentric old man's dance for the world and wonder over the workings of humankind's best friend, O Holy Dog. Whether he's exploring the myriad ways to be reborn, or the circumstances that can make any man a killer, or returning us to Mars, Bradbury opens the world to us and beckons us in.
The collection spans several decades of the author's writings. There are a few stories that are typical, such as "Fly Away Home," which resembles the short story "Mars is Heaven" from Martian Chronicles, even in the sacred connotations of the title. The stories "Ma Parker Comes to Stay" and "Remembrance, Ohio" are variations of the theme of the blurry line separating the entertainment/fantasy world and the real world. Ma Parker is enjoyable, though dated in the use of popular radio shows and how they affect millions of households to be something like those in Stepford. Bradbury uses his Hollywood background for the fantasy of Remembrance.
Bradbury's involvement with Hollywood and other events of his real life add autobiographical aspects to the stories. The book includes the usual disclaimer about coincidental resemblances between fiction and fact, but Bradbury also states in the Preface that these stories come from his point of view as a spectator, and the first story is about a man he knew. Several of the stories read like memoirs, in part because they are not plot driven like the author's usual science fiction. Several pieces are character sketches or just scenes. There are a few surprising stories of near homosexual encounters. In other words, this is not vintage Bradbury.
My personal favorite is "A Literary Encounter," in which a wife realizes her husband is influenced by what he reads. He starts the story speaking of his excitement over the sad sweetness of an October night after reading Tom Wolfe. He has a short conversation, using short statements, with his wife while reading The Maltese Falcon. He has an affected manner of talking after reading Samuel Johnson. This makes him seem almost schizophrenic as it happens in just a couple of scenes. His wife then asks him to read what he had read when they were dating, to influence him to be the Saroyan lover he once was. Readers and writers will relate.
For me the effect of reading Bradbury is nostalgic, as I have read his stories since I was ten years old. I reminisce about growing up in a small Midwestern town, fantasizing about Mars, circuses, and such. There are a few traditional tales to remind me. This collection adds stories of adulthood, of loss and wanting to live it up, of reality with less of the fantastic elements than the quizzical.
