Ray Bradbury's moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Very much recommended.About the Book During one golden summer in 1928, twelve-year-old Douglas and his brother wander in and out of the lives of their elders. Forbes Library’s Afternoon Book Discussion discussed Dandelion Wine in August and we had a very lively, enjoyable discussion.
The stories are memorable, the setting and characters are both characterful and yet sufficiently loosely described so as to seem universal, and the writing is engagingly snappy and colorful. Jonas, the maybe magical and certainly mysterious town junkman who heals Douglas when he is ill.ĭandelion Wine reads quickly but offers much worth dwelling on. Like so many of Ray Bradbury’s novels, Dandelion Wine is episodic, essentially a collection of stories many of which can stand alone. Douglas features in many of these stories, but several stories feature other characters, among them: Leo Auffmann, who attempts to build a happiness machine Helen Loomis, who is 95 and never married, but shares a mutual admiration with the much younger Bill Forester and Mr. Douglas’s summer is a time of brightness and joy to be cherished, but still, by its end he has transformed himself, having struggled with issues of identity, age, fear, and mortality. This is the first of many revelations Douglas will have over the course of the summer.
I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!” In the first few pages of the novel Douglas Spaulding, the twelve-year-old protagonist, is stuck by the alarming thought that he is alive, “I’m really alive! he thought. MassHire Franklin Hampshire Career Centerĭandelion Wine is Ray Bradbury’s novel of a child’s summer in a small Illinois town.Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum.My Account Accessibility Hours Contact Donate Search for: Search What to search
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