The cat's pajamas : stories / Ray Bradbury.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Morrow, c2004.Edition: 1st edDescription: xix, 234 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 006058565X (acidfree paper)
- 813/.54 22
- PS3503.R167 C37 2004
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Bradbury, Ray | Checked out | 07/02/2024 | 33111003940141 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Ray Bradbury is, indisputably, one of America's greatest storytellers. The recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, he ranks among the most beloved -- and widely read -- of American authors. In The Cat's Pajamas, this "latter-day O. Henry" (Booklist) takes us on an amazing walk through his six-decade career, presenting twenty-two tales -- some old, some new, all but two never before published.
Here you will find stories strange and scary, nostalgic and bittersweet, humorous and heart-touching, ranging from the not-so-long-gone past to an unknowable future: a group of senators drinks a bit too much -- and gambles away the United States; a newlywed couple buys an old house and finds their fledgling relationship tested; two mysterious strangers arrive at a rooming house and baffle their fellow occupants with strange crying in the night; a lonely woman takes a last chance on love. The final piece in the collection is a story-poem, a fond salute from Bradbury to his literary heroes Shaw, Chesterton, Dickens, Twain, Poe, Wilde, Melville, and Kipling.
The Cat's Pajamas is just that -- the bee's knees -- a touching, timeless, and tender collection from the incomparable Ray Bradbury, and a anoramic view of an amazingly long, rich, and fertile creative career.
Chrysalis -- The island -- Sometime before dawn -- Hail to the chief -- We'll just act natural -- Olé, Orozco! Siqueiros, sí! -- The house -- The John Wilkes Booth/Warner Brothers/MGM/NBC funeral train -- A careful man dies -- The cat's pajamas -- The Mafioso cement-mixing machine -- The ghosts -- Where's my hat, what's my hurry? -- The transformation -- Sixty-six -- A matter of taste -- I get the blues when it rains -- (A remembrance) -- All my enemies are dead -- The completist -- The R.B., G.K.C., and G.B.S. forever orient express.