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Farewell Summer (Green Town)

Ray Bradbury

Hardcover | Pages: 211 pages

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Original Title:	Farewell, Summer
ISBN:	0061131547 (ISBN13: 9780061131547)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Green Town

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In a summer that refuses to end, in the deceiving warmth of earliest October, civil war has come to Green Town, Illinois. It is the age-old conflict: the young against the elderly, for control of the clock that ticks their lives ever forward. The first cap-pistol shot heard 'round the town is dead accurate, felling an old man in his tracks, compelling town elder and school board despot Mr. Calvin C. Quartermain to marshal his graying forces and declare total war on the assassin, thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaudling, and his downy-checked cohorts. Doug and his cronies, however, are most worthy adversaries who should not be underestimated, as they plan and execute daring campaigns-matching old Quartermain's experience and cunning with their youthful enthusiasm and devil-may-care determination to hold on forever to childhood's summer. Yet time must ultimately be the victor, with valuable revelations for those on both sides of the conflicts. And life waits in ambush to assail Doug Spaulding with its powerful mysteries-the irresistible ascent of manhood, the sweet surrender to a first kiss-

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Title	:	Farewell Summer (Green Town)
Author	:	Ray Bradbury
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 211 pages
Published	:	October 17th 2006 by William Morrow (first published 2006)
Categories	:	Fiction. Science Fiction. Fantasy. Classics. Young Adult. Novels. Literature. American

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Blurb from Dandelion wine.A moving recollection of a magical small-town summerI loved that book and gave it 5* however I didn't write a review. Farewell summer is a follow on from that book Bradbury says in the closing of it that it is an extension of the original book, written over 55 years ago but the publishers felt that it was too long and suggested he keep it for a 'future year'. Over 50 years later his wonderful part 2 had evolved and become richer (his words) with the further ideas and



Is it as good as Dandelion Wine? Well...to be honest, no. But still, it's a fine read for any Bradbury fan and someone looking to catch a bit more of Green Town, IL. Where Dandelion Wine captured the joys of innocent childhood and a town full of unique and charming characters (bottled like a nice wine), Farewell Summer is more about a boy's passage (like a change in seasons) from childhood into adolescence. Douglas learns about old people. He learns about how his actions can effect other people.

This work is a sequel to Bradbury's Dandelion Wine, but it can stand very much on its own as I enjoyed this novel without reading that earlier work. At first, I wasn't so interested in the book's subject matter, largely a mock war between the young (Doug, Tom, and his cohorts) and the old of the town (Calvin C. Quartermain). Cute, but not my reading forte. But as I continued, I warmed up to the book. I realized that Bradbury is interested in ideas about aging, mortality, coming of age (Doug) and

An interesting, sentimental addenda to the classic Dandelion Wine. Full of the poetic writing that makes DW such a great book, this is a slight but fitting end to the Green Town trilogy.

I'm a huge Ray Bradbury fan.  I haven't found another writer who can accurately capture the nostalgia of childhood so perfectly.  I read Dandelion Wine for the first time a few years ago and it instantly became my favorite book of all time.  It was so perfect in fact that I decided to hold off on reading the sequel, Farewell Summer, until this year.Farewell Summer brings readers back to Green Town, Illinois with summer hanging on in to early October.  Doug Spaulding and his friends find a rival

No matter how much you loved Dandelion Wine, or how much you love Bradbury, don't read this. Really.