A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities

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 Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery--and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power. Zusammenfassung Halloween Night! 1954. A young! film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery—and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power.

Product details

• Authors: Ray Bradbury, Ray D Bradbury
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2001
• EAN: 9780380812004
• ISBN: 978-0-380-81200-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 222 g
• Series: Crumley Mysteries; Crumley Mysteries
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Thrillers / Historical, FICTION: General, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Fantasy / General, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION: Crime, FICTION: Occult & Supernatural, FICTION: Holidays, FICTION: Classics, FICTION: Fantasy / Historical, FICTION: Horror / General