Based upon Bradbury's own experiences growing up in Waukegan in the 1920s, 'Dandelion Wine' is a heady mixture of fond memory, forgiveness, magic, the imagination and above all, of summers that seemed to go on forever. Dandelion Wine is a nostalgic autobiographical fantasy in which the author forms a collage of isolated parts and melds them together. Distilling his experiences into "Rites & Ceremonies" and "Discoveries & Revelations", the young Spaulding wistfully ponders over magical tennis shoes, and machines for every purpose from time travel to happiness and silent travel. 'Dandelion Wine' is a quirky, breathtaking coming-of-age story from one of science fiction's greatest writers. Everyone up.'" In the backwaters of Illinois, Douglas Spaulding's grandfather makes an intoxicating brew from harvested dandelions. A sprinkle of windows came suddenly alight miles off in dawn country. Yellow squares were cut in the dim morning earth as house lights winked slowly on. He exhaled again and again and the stars began to vanish. Pressed into wine and bottled, the dandelion represents summer itself, and a drop of the drink brings the taste of magical life. Cut down at the end of each month of summer, the dandelions return soon after, representing the cycle of life. The street lights, like candles on a black cake, went out. Bradbury uses the dandelion as a symbol of life itself. "He stood at the open window in the dark, took a deep breath and exhaled. An endearing classic of childhood memories of an idyllic midwestern summer from the celebrated author of 'Farenheit 451'.
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