From The Dust Returned: A Family Remembrance,New

From Audiofile You Can Talk About Your Family Reunions All You Want, But Know That Bradbury Can Top You With This Audiobook. Using Some Stories He Wrote Over 50 Years Ago, He Has Concocted A Halloween Homecoming Of All Manner Of Creatures, With Varying Degrees Of What Might Be Called 'Humanness,' Many Of Them Thousands Of Years Old. There'S Cecy, Who Can Slip Into Other (Real) People'S Minds And Make Them Do What She Wants Them To Do; Uncle Einar, An Eightfooter With Wings Who Wants To Teach Foundling Timothy To Fly; Grand Mere, A Mummy Occupying The Attic Who Recalls Her Times In Egypt. Obviously The Book Requires Some Suspension Of Disbelief, But It Is, For The Most Part, Charming And, For The Most Part, Well Read. John Glover Combines Distance And Involvement, Amazement And Amusement, With Lots Of Drama. Bradbury'S Millions Of Fans Will Love His Stunning Writing And Be Pleased That His Metaphors And, Especially, His Verbs Are Nicely Captured By Glover. T.H. Audiofile 2002, Portland, Maine Copyright Audiofile, Portland, Maine Product Description Ray Bradbury Takes The Listener To A Most Wondrous And Unexpected Destination: The Heart Of The Eternal Family.A Gala Homecoming Will Reunite This Odd And Remarkable Family: Father, Arisen From The Earth; Mother, Who Never Sleeps But Dreams; Cecy, The Fairest And Most Special Daughter; And Timothy, The Sad Foundling Son Who Must Share It All.Always Ambitious, From The Dust Returned Is The Long Awaited New Novel By Peerless Storyteller Ray Bradbury An Audiobook That Sears With Image And A Quiet Poetry That Will Surely Be Numbered Among His Most Enduring Masterworks. From Library Journal Wondering What Bradbury Has Been Doing Since The Publication Of His Last Novel, Green Shadows, White Whale, In 1992? Completing This New Account (55 Years In The Making) Of His Popular Elliot Family. To Celebrate, The Publisher Has Declared October Ray Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.