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Informationen zum Autor In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine , and Something Wicked This Way Comes . An Emmy Award winner for his teleplay The Halloween Tree and an Academy Award nominee, he was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, among many honors. Klappentext Three hours after midnight! one week before Halloween! Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show rolls into Green Town! Illinois. A carnival like no other! it feeds on the dreams and weaknesses of those drawn to its eerie attractions! destroying every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. Two boys--best friends Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade--are about to learn the secret of its smoke! mazes and mirrors as they confront a nightmarish evil that will change their lives forever. Zusammenfassung The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight! ushering in Halloween a week early. The shrill siren song of a calliope beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying! Cooger & Dark´s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town! Illinois! to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two boys will discover the secret of its smoke! mazes! and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well the heavy cost of wishes. . .and the stuff of nightmare. Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury´s unparalleled literary classic SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. For those who still dream and remember! for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry! step inside. The show is about to begin.The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight! ushering in Halloween a week early. The shrill siren song of a calliope beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying! Cooger & Dark´s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town! Illinois! to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two boys will discover the secret of its smoke! mazes! and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well the heavy cost of wishes. . .and the stuff of nightmare. Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury´s unparalleled literary classic SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. For those who still dream and remember! for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry! step inside. The show is about to begin. ...
