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Reviewers are paid to take these terrible risks and the report here, offered a little shakily, is that Dandelion Wine is fine and new and rare. The novel is a giddy leap into nostalgia, and maybe that is why it works as well now as it ever...
...DANDELION WINE...
Burn all high school yearbooks, tell loathsome lies to old roommates who telephone after 20 years, on pain of black despair avoid sentimental journeys to childhood beer gardens, and never, never reread Look Homeward, Angel. But here comes Science Fiction Writer Ray Bradbury's magical boyhood novel Dandelion Wine, republished in a new edition after 19 years. Is its magic powerful enough to make it young again, or is its neck corded and scrawny in the collar of that new dust jacket...
Buying new sneakers, without which summer cannot begin at all. Hanging the porch swing, gathering dandelion blossoms, pressing them, adding rain water and waiting for the bubbles of fermentation. A friend leaves town. An old man dies. Grandma cooks a mighty belly-boggling, legendary dinner. Douglas gets sick and lies loony and limp. He gets well. He and his brother rocket around town, crazy with motion. He hides, quiet, in the dark bed of ferns beside the porch, listening to the drone of grown-up voices; cigar ends glow in the dusk. His new sneakers fade, streak, scuff...
...drop started, it stopped. I seemed to have control of the kite and was in relatively smooth flight. Then I dipped again, plummeting toward the mountain, only to be 'rescued' by an updraft. It was as if the wind was playing with us, tossing us around like dandelion seeds. I would talk to my kite: 'Come on, baby, hang in there...