The bright, fantastic summer of 1928: twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding keeps records of the events of that summer, which add up to separate stories, grotesque distortions of the ordinary everyday life of the small town where Douglas and his family live. Everything there does not seem to be what it is, and the power of children's imagination creates a new reality that cannot be distinguished from fiction.Grown out of individual short stories, filigree in their lyricism, the novel "Dandelion Wine" is a classic chronicle of Ray Bradbury's childhood, a window into the creative world of the writer who created such masterpieces of world literature as The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451."Hold summer in the palm of your hand, pour summer into a glass, a very tiny one, of course, because children are supposed to have a tiny sip with bitterness; take a sip of summer from a glass — and the season will change in your veins." Read more…