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With Death Is a Lonely Business, his first novel since Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962), he begins what may be a new career as an author of detective fiction.
"Death," said the voice behind me, "is a lonely business." I thought he might weep. I stared ahead at the flashing rain that rushed to meet us. The train slowed. The man rose up in a fury of demand, as if he might beat at me if I didn't listen and at last turn. He wanted to be seen. He wished to drown me in his need.
Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early 1950s. Toiling away amid the looming palm trees and decaying bungalows, a struggling young writer (who bears a resemblance to ...
11 de fev. de 2015 · Death is a lonely business by Bradbury, Ray, 1920-Publication date 1985 Publisher New York, N.Y. : Knopf : Distributed by Random House Collection
Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early 1950s.<br /><br />Toiling awa…
12 de out. de 1985 · Bradbury is an incredible story teller, Death is a Lonely Business is(to my knowledge) one of the only noir-esk stories that he ever wrote, and it's absolutely fantastic. I highly recommend, even if you don't get a collectors edition, that you read this story.
31 de ago. de 2010 · Toiling away amid the looming palm trees and decaying bungalows, a struggling young writer (who bears a strong resemblance to Ray Bradbury himself) spins fantastic stories from his fertile imagination upon his clacking typewriter.
