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The perfect book for remembering summer vacation, from that first June morning to the school supplies on store shelves in August. Bradbury takes us to small town Illinois: Green Town, summer of 1928.
An enchanting coming of age story. While "magical realism" became THE term for describing South American writers many years after this book came out, it is the best description for what Bradbury does here. Everyday people with everyday problems in a small sleepy town, live in a world of fascinating psychic and moral possibility.
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