Jonathan R Eller / RAY BRADBURY The Life of Fiction Signed 1st Edition 2004

RAY BRADBURY: The Life of Fiction. Touponce Title: RAY BRADBURY: The Life of Fiction Publication: Kent and London: The Kent State University Press, 2004 Edition: First Edition.

Signed by Ray Bradbury on the title page. The first comprehensive textual, bibliographical, and cultural study of sixty years of Bradbury's fiction.

Drawing on correspondence with his publishers, agents, and friends, as well as archival manuscripts, authors Jonathan R. Touponce examine the story of Bradbury's authorship over more than a half-century, from his earliest writings, which include The Martian Chronicles, to his most recently published novel, Let's All Kill Constance. It shows in detail the often devious and unsuspected interconnections between his unpublished fiction, his story collections, and his most celebrated novels. Original black cloth binding, with purple-stamped titling. A near fine copy in a fresh and bright dust jacket.

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