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Article: The masterly Bradbury.(The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury)(Book Review)
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- May 23, 2005
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The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury, by Sam Weller (William Morrow, 400 pp., $26.95)
LONG ago, within the living memory of very few people, there were fire-balloons. These delicate fireworks--each a colorful paper balloon designed to be filled with the breath of a small fire in a miniature basket hung underneath--were carefully lit and sent skyward into the night on special occasions. They seem to have been especially popular in the small-town American Midwest. Ray Bradbury remembers being five years old and watching his grandfather light and release a fire-balloon outside the older man's home in Waukegan, Ill., on the Fourth of July in 1925: He and ...
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Article: Works of Ray Bradbury: Guide To Further Study
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... ... Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury, and Rex Gordon. Consult your ... process as discussed in chapter I, "Ray Bradbury's Life, Times, and Works ... Other Plays (see chapter I, "Ray Bradbury's Life, Times, and Works ...
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