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From the Dust Returned (Paperback)
by Ray Bradbury (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Earthlight; New Ed edition (2 Sep 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0743429982
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743429986
  • Product Dimensions: 18 x 11.1 x 1.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 811,627 in Books (See Bestsellers 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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3.0 out of 5 stars A fair tale, just be aware that its a fix-up..., 1 Oct 2002
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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.

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