- Paperback
- Publisher: Earthlight (31 Oct 2001)
- ISBN-10: 0743221192
- ISBN-13: 978-0743221191
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,067,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Enter the strange world of the Elliott family...it will change you forever IN THE ATTIC WHERE THE RAIN TOUCHED THE ROOF SOFTLY ON SPRING DAYS AND WHERE YOU COULD FEEL THE MANTLE OF SNOW OUTSIDE, A FEW INCHES AWAY, ON DECEMBER NIGHTS, A THOUSAND-TIME GREAT GRANDMERE EXISTED. SHE DID NOT LIVE, NOR WAS SHE ETERNALLY DEAD, SHE...EXISTED. She is the grandmother of the Elliott family, which includes mind-readers, vampires and many others...maybe. In a strange old house, they gradually come together, mixing their arcane skills and life-styles, falling in and out of love and changing the world around them forever. You have never seen their like before.
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Ray Bradbury is one of the Twentieth Century's most celebrated writers of fiction. Author of FARENHEIT 451, THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES and SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, among many other books, he has also written extensively for theatre and cinema - including the screenplay for John Huston's classic film of MOBY DICK. He lives in California with his wife.
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In the attic where the rain touched the roof softly on spring days and where you could feel the mantle of snow outside, a few inches away, on December nights, A Thousand Times Great Grandmere existed. Read the first page
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Ray Bradbury's first full-length book in a number of years concerns the coming together, and subsequent dissolution, of the Elliott family. As you'd expect from Bradbury this is no ordinary family, but a motley collection of grotesques, ranging from Nefertiti's long dead mother to ghosts, vampires, mind readers, and others most bizarre. We are introduced to this weird family through the eyes of Timothy - an adopted child of non-supernatural parentage, whose desire to be a part of this family drives the book to its conclusion. It is a celebration of the weird, and ultimately a lesson on the necessity of death.
Much has been made of the mis-advertising of From the Dust Returned as an entirely new novel - it is in fact a "fix-up" - a collection of previously published short stories with new linking material. With said reprints, alongside a page count expanded by numerous pictures, there is probably only around 100 pages of 'new' material here. While this may have dismayed those who bought the more expensively priced hardback, the linking of old material and new is seamlessly done, and for those unfamiliar with the re-used material this reads like a full novel rather than a collection of vaguely linked ideas.
While not amongst Bradbury's best, and hampered somewhat by some very overlong and overwritten sentences (especially in the material from the 40's), this is still an enjoyable addition to any fantastic fiction fans library.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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My Samhain treat this year is discovering a new book from one of my favorite authors, Ray Bradbury. This book was fifty years in the writing and those years have produced a wonderful vintage Bradbury. From the Dust Returned contains interwoven stories told in the many different voices of the October people. Some are old friends. Some are new friends. All are wonderful, magical, wise, and totally Bradbury. A deeply moving remembrance of the ancestors, Bradbury has written a book for all Samhains. This book could only have been written by a master storyteller into the fullness of his maturity. From the Dust Returned is strange and startlingly beautiful fruit fallen from an ancient tree. Well worth the read.
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In upper Illinois there stands a house, a house not built by human hands. And in this house there dwells a family unlike any other, a family of the undead. Mummies, vampires, werewolves, and some beyond description live there, or visit on special occasions. And there lives there one small human, Timothy. Left on the doorstep as a baby, it is Timothy's fate to write the story of the house and the family. This is Timothy's story.
From the above description, one might assume this book to be a work of horror. Strangely enough, that couldn't be further from the truth. This surrealistic story tells of a family that isn't and can't be, and that's rather too bad. This wonderful story draws you into the human condition of a very unhuman family, holding up a dark and distorted mirror to all humanity. It is quite fascinating, and, in its own way, heartwarming.
This novel is the product of some 40 years of Ray Bradbury's life. It influenced the work of Charles Addams (author of the Addams Family cartoons), and shows many affinities with those stories. So, if you are a fan of the Addams Family, of Ray Bradbury, of undead stories, or just plain a fan of good literature, then I highly recommend this wonderful book to you!
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A manifesto for keeping life's mysteries alive.
Hidden within this fantastical tale of spirits, ghosts, and surreal happenings, is a message that speaks directly to the soul--a message so timely, so heartfelt, and so broad in... Read more
Published on 10 Nov 2002 by Mary Whipple
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I have been reading Ray Bradbury for about 25 years and have never been disappointed until now. There was not actually a lot of reading to the book considering the high price,... Read more
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Ray Bradbury has, for many more years than he may care to recall, been a huge name associated with science fiction, straying into the fantasy arena on occasion. Read more
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