FROM THE DUST RETURNED
Book ID/图书代码： 03890004B0400811
English Summary/英文概要： Ray Bradbury, America’s most beloved storyteller, has spent a lifetime carrying readers to exhilarating and dangerous places, from dark street comers in unfamiliar cities and towns to the edge of the universe. Now, in an extraordinary flight of the imagination a half-century in the making, he takes us to a most wondrous destination: into the heart of an Eternal Family.
They have lived for centuries in a house of legend and mystery in upper Illinois -- and they are not like other midwesterners. Rarely encountered in daylight hours, their children are curious and wild; their old ones have survived since before the Sphinx first sank its paws deep in Egyptian sands. And some sleep in beds with lids.
Now the house is being readied in anticipation of the gala homecoming that will gather together the farflung branches of this odd and remarkable family. In the past-midnight stillness can be detected the soft fluttering of Uncle Einars wings. From her realm of sleep, Cecy, the fairest and most special daughter, can feel the approach of many a welcome being -- shapeshifter, telepath, somnambulist, vampire -- as she flies high in the consciousness of bird and bat.
But in the midst of eager anticipation, a sense of doom pervades. For the world is changing. And death, no stranger, will always shadow this most singular family: Father, arisen from the Earth; Mother, who never sleeps but dreams; A Thousand Times Great Grandmére; Grandfather, who keeps the wildness of youth between his ears.
And the boy who, more than anyone, carries the burden of time on his shoulders: Timothy, the sad and different foundling son who must share it all, remember, and tell...and who, alone out of all of them, must one day age and wither and die.
By turns lyrical, wistful, poignant, and chilling, From the Dust Returned is the long-awaited new novel by the peerless Ray Bradbury -- a book that will surely be numbered among his
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 這個傳奇的家族數百年來世代居住在伊利諾上州，但他們一點也不像所謂的中西部居民。白天很少能夠看到他們的蹤跡。他們當中有些人跟埃及的人面獅身像一樣古老。有些人則是睡在棺材裡。這座宅邸即將舉行一場百年難見的盛會，這個奇特宗族的子民將從四面八方歸來歡聚一堂。然而，在這興高采烈的期待氣氛裡，卻同時瀰漫著一股不詳的預感。畢竟，這個世界的變化太大了。而死亡，原本就不是陌生人，將時時刻刻威脅著這個獨一無二的家族。
Awards/获奖情况：“Ray Bradbury is Edgar Allan Poe for optimists. . . .[M]ixed in with the boisterous adventures of a family that’s spirited in more ways than one are wistful meditations on the fragile preciousness of life. For Bradbury, the most bewitching force in the universe is human nature. . . . The joy of FROM THE DUST RETURNED is the way in which the author’s boyish enthusiasm for goblins and spirits intersects with his adult conviction that the fantastic is unmatched by the tangible. . . .’Make haste to live’ is the Elliotts’ motto, and it’s an invitation so moving and earnest that the reader can’t help wanting to take them up on it.”---NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“From the Dust Returned is as much poetry as fiction. Images bound, lyrical, heartbreaking. . .. From the Dust Returned exudes transcendence.”---THE BALTIMORE SUN
"At last—a book you can judge by its cover…One of his most attractive and satisfying works in quite some time."---KIRKUS (STARRED REVIEW)
“[A] touchstone, codex and sampler of the pure Bradbury voice…Thank the shades of Twain and Melville and the living presence of Pynchon - all of whom cherish Bradbury, wherever they may be-that this Poet Laureate of the Chimerical and Phantasmagoric is still with us, still writing, still freshening our ration of dream dust.”---LA TIMES “BEST BOOKS OF 2001” BOOK REVIEW
“Bradbury weaves his magic.”---ALA BOOKLIST
"He has fashioned …a novel, funny, beautiful, sad and wise, to rank with his finest work. Full of wide-eyed wonder and dazzling imagery, the stories retain as an integrated whole their original freshness and charm…This book will shame the cynics and delight the true believers who never lost faith in their beloved author."---PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (*STARRED REVIEW*)
"Written in trademark Bradbury style, the book reads like liquid poetry while telling the interconnected storiess of a number of unusual—yet strangely familiar—family members....A new novel by Bradbury is an event worth noting, and this is a necessary purchase for all public libraries."---LIBRARY JOURNAL, STARRED REVIEW
“Bradbury’s voice is as idiosyncratic, as mannered, as specifically that of a rara avis, as Hemingway’s or Proust’s or Vonnegut’s…Thank the shades of Twain and Melville and the living presence of Pychon---all of whom cherish Bradbury, wherever they may be---that this Poet Laureate of the Chimerical and Phantasmgoric is still with us, still writing, still refreshing our ration of dreamdust.”---LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW (COVER REVIEW)
Awards for From the Dust Returned
National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
About the Author/作者介绍： Ray Bradbury, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and poet, was born August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. He graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938.Although his formal education ended there, he became a "student of life," selling newspapers on L.A. street corners from 1938 to 1942, spending his nights in the public library and his days at the typewriter.He became a full-time writer in 1943, and contributed numerous short stories to periodicals before publishing a collection of them, Dark Carnival, in 1947.
舉世公認最偉大的科幻小說大師 雷．布萊伯利（Ray Bradbury）
1920年8月22日生於美國伊利諾州沃奇根市。1938年高中畢業後，他白天在街頭賣報，晚上則在公共圖書館讀書、寫作。1943年，他正式成為全職作家，為多種雜誌撰寫短篇小說，但直至1947年才正式出版他的第一部作品《黑暗嘉年華》。
1950年的長篇小說《火星紀事》是他的成名代表作，也為他奠立了科幻小說界的地位，其後陸續發表多部膾炙人口的經典名作，包括：《華氏451度》、《圖案人》、《十月國度》、《蒲公英酒》及《邪惡降臨》等。他的創作速度與質量都十分驚人，多年來已出版近50部小說，其中包括約600篇短篇小說。他另著有多部散文集、詩集，以及廣播劇、舞台劇、電視、電影等劇本。
布萊伯利的小說已被超過1000所美國公、私立學校選為教材或推薦讀物。截至目前為止，他已獲得的獎項包括：奧．亨利紀念獎（奧．亨利獎的地位如同美國短篇小說界的奧斯卡獎）、富蘭克林獎、世界奇幻文學協會終生成就獎、美國科幻小說作家協會大師獎、美國西岸筆會終生成就獎，以及美國國家圖書基金會頒發的美國文學特殊貢獻獎。在文學領域之外，他亦曾入圍奧斯卡最佳動畫短片劇本獎，並曾獲艾美獎的最佳廣播劇劇本獎。美國『阿波羅號』太空人登陸月球後，甚至將月球上的火山口命名為『蒲公英火山口』，向布萊伯利的小說《蒲公英酒》致敬，由此可見布萊伯利的地位之崇高、影響力之大。
美國電視台曾改編布萊伯利的小說為電視影集『雷．布萊伯利劇場』，法國新浪潮電影大師楚浮則曾將《華氏451度》改編拍成電影，成為影史上著名的經典之作。目前《華氏451度》正計畫二度改拍成電影，預定由『綠色奇蹟』的名導演執導，巨星布萊德彼特主演，備受矚目。
雷．布萊伯利目前與四隻愛貓定居於洛杉磯，並仍持續創作不輟。
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