Article: The masterly Bradbury.(The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury)(Book Review)

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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