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said, "A touching meditation on memories, aging, and the endless cycle of birth and death, and a fitting capstone, perhaps, to a brilliant career."
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found it "a thin work, heavily reliant on dialogue, but one that serves as an intriguing coda to one of Bradbury's classics."
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in 1980. Jonathan R. Eller and William F. Touponce discuss a draft of the unpublished novel in some detail in their book,
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called the novel a "poignant, wise but slight 'extension' of the indefatigable Bradbury's semiautobiographical
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This article is about the Bradbury novel. For the Helen Hooven Santmyer novella, see
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in October 1929. The story concerns a mock war between the young and the old in
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Farewell, Summer
Goldenrod
Farewell Summer (film)
Hardback cover of Farewell Summer
Ray Bradbury
Autobiographical novel
William Morrow
ISBN
0-06-113154-7
OCLC
70335478
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
Dandelion Wine
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury
Dandelion Wine
Indian summer
Green Town, Illinois
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Waukegan, Illinois
The Stories of Ray Bradbury
Publishers Weekly
Dandelion Wine
Kirkus Reviews
Booklist
"Strange Horizons Reviews: Farewell Summer by Ray Bradbury, reviewed by David Soyka"
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Farewell Summer
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