Farewell Summer

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Farewell Summer

Author	Ray Bradbury
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Autobiographical novel
Publisher	William Morrow
Publication date	October 17, 2006
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	224 pp
ISBN	0-06-113154-7
OCLC	70335478
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 22
LC Class	PS3503.R167 F45 2006
Preceded by	Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes

Farewell Summer is a novel by Ray Bradbury, published on October 17, 2006. It was his last novel released in his lifetime. It is a sequel to his 1957 novel Dandelion Wine, and is set during an Indian summer in October 1929. The story concerns a mock war between the young and the old in Green Town, Illinois, and the sexual awakening of Doug Spaulding as he turns 14. With Something Wicked This Way Comes, they form a trilogy of novels inspired by Bradbury's childhood in Waukegan, Illinois.

The first chapter, also titled Farewell Summer, appeared in The Stories of Ray Bradbury in 1980. Jonathan R. Eller and William F. Touponce discuss a draft of the unpublished novel in some detail in their book, Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction (2004).

Publishers Weekly called the novel a "poignant, wise but slight 'extension' of the indefatigable Bradbury's semiautobiographical Dandelion Wine" and concluded, "Bradbury's mature but fresh return to his beloved early writing conveys a depth of feeling." Kirkus Reviews found it "a thin work, heavily reliant on dialogue, but one that serves as an intriguing coda to one of Bradbury's classics." Booklist said, "A touching meditation on memories, aging, and the endless cycle of birth and death, and a fitting capstone, perhaps, to a brilliant career."

History

In the afterword to Farewell Summer, Bradbury ... contends that the novel was actually intended to follow what became the Dandelion Wine story arc as a complete book tentatively titled Summer Morning, Summer Night. "When I delivered it to my publishers they said, 'My God, this is much too long. Why don't we publish the first 90,000 words as a novel and keep the second part for some future year when it is ready to be published'" (pp. 207–208).

Editions

October 2006 : Hardback; ISBN 0-06-113154-7 / 978-0-06-113154-7 (USA edition); Publisher: William Morrow
November 2007 : Mass Market Paperback; ISBN 0-06-113155-5 / 978-0-06-113155-4 (USA edition); Publisher: Harper
November 2007 : Paperback; ISBN 0-06-147095-3 / 978-0-06-147095-0 (USA edition); Publisher: Harperluxe
2006 : Paperback; ISBN 0-7394-8134-7 / 978-0-7394-8134-9 (USA edition); Publisher: Harper Collins
November 2006 : Audio CD; ISBN 0-7927-4519-1 / 978-0-7927-4519-8 (USA edition); Publisher: Sound Library
November 2006 : Audio Cassette; ISBN 0-7927-4542-6 / 978-0-7927-4542-6 (USA edition); Publisher: Sound Library
November 2006 : MP3 CD; ISBN 0-7927-4565-5 / 978-0-7927-4565-5 (USA edition); Publisher: Sound Library

(Sources: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/ray-bradbury/farewell-summer.htm as of 11dec07)

External links

Farewell Summer title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Dust jacket of Farewell Summer

v t e Works of Ray Bradbury

Novels	The Martian Chronicles (1950) Fahrenheit 451 (1953) Dandelion Wine (1957) Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) The Halloween Tree (1972) Death Is a Lonely Business (1985) A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990) Green Shadows, White Whale (1992) From the Dust Returned (2001) Let's All Kill Constance (2002) Farewell Summer (2006)

Short stories	"The Scythe" (1943) "Frost and Fire" (1946) "The Million Year Picnic" (1946) "The Small Assassin" (1946) "I See You Never" (1947) "Fever Dream" (1948) "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl" (1948) "The Long Years" (1948) "Mars Is Heaven!" (1948) "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed" (1949) "The Exiles" (1949) "Marionettes, Inc." (1949) "The Long Rain" (1950) "The Rocket" (1950) "There Will Come Soft Rains" (1950) "The Veldt" (1950) "Ylla" (1950) "Embroidery" (1951) "The Fog Horn" (1951) "Here There Be Tygers" (1951) "The Pedestrian" (1951) "The April Witch" (1952) "A Sound of Thunder" (1952) "The Wilderness" (1952) "The Flying Machine" (1953) "The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind" (1953) "The Meadow" (1953) "The Murderer" (1953) "Sun and Shadow" (1953) "All Summer in a Day" (1954) "The Dragon" (1955) "The Aqueduct" (1979) "Banshee" (1984) "The Toynbee Convector" (1984) "Is That You, Herb?" (2004)

Collections	Dark Carnival (1947) The Mummies of Guanajuato (1947) The Illustrated Man (1951) The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953) The October Country (1955) A Medicine for Melancholy (1959) The Day It Rained Forever (1959) The Small Assassin (1962) R Is for Rocket (1962) The Machineries of Joy (1964) The Autumn People (1965) The Vintage Bradbury (1965) Tomorrow Midnight (1966) S Is for Space (1966) Twice 22 (1966) I Sing the Body Electric (1969) Ray Bradbury (1975) Long After Midnight (1976) The Fog Horn & Other Stories (1979) The Last Circus and the Electrocution (1980) The Stories of Ray Bradbury (1980) The Fog Horn and Other Stories (1980) Dinosaur Tales (1983) A Memory of Murder (1984) The Toynbee Convector (1988) Classic Stories 1 (1990) Classic Stories 2 (1990) The Parrot Who Met Papa (1991) Selected from Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed (1991) Quicker Than the Eye (1996) Driving Blind (1997) Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories (2001) One More for the Road (2002) Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2003) Is That You, Herb? (2003) The Cat's Pajamas: Stories (2004) A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories (2005) The Dragon Who Ate His Tail (2007) Summer Morning, Summer Night (2007) A Pleasure to Burn (2010) The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury (2011)

Plays	The Flying Machine: A One-Act Play for Three Men (1953) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and Other Plays (1972) Pillar of Fire and Other Plays (1975) The Martian Chronicles (1986) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1986) Fahrenheit 451 (1986) Dandelion Wine (1988) The Veldt (1988)

Adaptations	It Came from Outer Space (1953) Moby Dick (1956) (screenplay) "I Sing the Body Electric" (1962) The Electric Grandmother (1982) Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) The Halloween Tree (1993) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998)

Miscellaneous	Zen in the Art of Writing (1990) It Came from Outer Space (Book) (2003)

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