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Farewell Summer

Farewell Summer

Contemporary LiteratureDrama
Published
2006
Language
English

Synopsis

Ray Bradbury's 2006 sequel to Dandelion Wine, completing what he called his Green Town Trilogy alongside Something Wicked This Way Comes. It continues the story of Douglas Spaulding and his family in Green Town, Illinois, and was the last novel Bradbury published in his lifetime.

Prose complexity
5/10

Vibe

MelancholicNostalgic
Coming of AgeMorally Grey

Genres

Contemporary Literature Drama

About the author

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Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than five hundred 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 wi...

Characters

Doug SpauldingProtagonist

A 14-year-old boy in 1929 Green Town whose awakening to sexuality and the passage of time drives the novel's elegiac tone.

All characters in Farewell Summer