I've read Dandelion Wine. I've read its disappointing sequel Farewell Summer. I've read Summer Morning, Summer Night, the collection of Dandelion Wine leftovers.I've read Dandelion Wine, the play; and heard the radio drama version.
I've seen (but didn't understand) the Russian TV miniseries based on Dandelion Wine.
But I've never heard of a Dandelion Wine wedding.
Until now.
And if that wasn't weird enough, here's a video for a song called "Bradbury", performed by an Argentinian band. Look out for Bradbury's face!
2 comments:
Really? You found Farewell Summer to be a disappointing sequel? That book had some of the most profound impacts on me of all of Ray's works! I read Dandelion Wine as a boy, and Farewell Summer as a man, and, with that, Ray slammed me between the eyes with what has become (for me) the most implanted of all his metaphors: the passage of time and experience through generations. Looking back now, I probably owe that book for my first collected stories, without even knowing it.
Defense of a favorite book aside, the wedding is such a wonderful idea! If I wasn't so madly in love with autumn, I'd probably adopt this for my own future wedding.
Thank you for sharing all these wonderful finds. I absolutely love this site!
Hi John,
Dandelion Wine and Farewell Summer were conceived as a single book (and not as "part one" and "part two", but more intertwining). I just think that the stronger material ended up in DW, and the lesser material in FS. Certainly DW is more unified, whereas FS seems more stitched together out of fragments.
I don't think FS is a bad book, just not as sparkling as DW. I was much more enchanted by Somewhere A Band Is Playing, which is another Bradbury piece written in the 1950s but held back from publication until the 2000s.
Thanks for the praise for the site. I quite like it myself!
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