Douglas’ only technological aid is a sharpened pencil and a notebook, on which he lists all of his summer experiences lest he lose track of them. This energetic and inquisitive schoolboy spends the summer of 1928 exploring the magic of this small fictional city, in a time before radio or television transformed the American experience. The joys of summer jump from every page of Ray Bradbury’s classic, Dandelion Wine, first published in 1957.īradbury tells the story from the perspective of Douglas Spalding, a twelve-year-old in Green Town, Illinois. That special season may be the reason that the word nostalgia was created. Just the word evokes feelings of freedom and excitement when presented to the school aged child that still resides deep inside even the most jaded adult.
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