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Overview

Ray Bradbury, America's most beloved storyteller, has spent a lifetime carrying readers to exhilarating and dangerous places, from dark street comers in unfamiliar cities and towns to the edge of the universe. Now, in an extraordinary flight of the imagination a half-century in the making, he takes us to a most wondrous destination: into the heart of an Eternal Family.

They have lived for centuries in a house of legend and mystery in upper Illinois — and they are not like other midwesterners. Rarely encountered in daylight hours, their children are curious and wild; their old ones have survived since before the Sphinx ...

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Overview

Ray Bradbury, America's most beloved storyteller, has spent a lifetime carrying readers to exhilarating and dangerous places, from dark street comers in unfamiliar cities and towns to the edge of the universe. Now, in an extraordinary flight of the imagination a half-century in the making, he takes us to a most wondrous destination: into the heart of an Eternal Family.

They have lived for centuries in a house of legend and mystery in upper Illinois — and they are not like other midwesterners. Rarely encountered in daylight hours, their children are curious and wild; their old ones have survived since before the Sphinx first sank its paws deep in Egyptian sands. And some sleep in beds with lids.

Now the house is being readied in anticipation of the gala homecoming that will gather together the farflung branches of this odd and remarkable family. In the past-midnight stillness can be detected the soft fluttering of Uncle Einars wings. From her realm of sleep, Cecy, the fairest and most special daughter, can feel the approach of many a welcome being — shapeshifter, telepath, somnambulist, vampire — as she flies high in the consciousness of bird and bat.

But in the midst of eager anticipation, a sense of doom pervades. For the world is changing. And death, no stranger, will always shadow this most singular family: Father, arisen from the Earth; Mother, who never sleeps but dreams; A Thousand Times Great Grandmére; Grandfather, who keeps the wildness of youth between his ears.

And the boy who, more than anyone, carries the burden of time on his shoulders: Timothy, the sad and different foundling son who must share it all, remember, and tell...and who, alone out of all of them, must one day age and wither and die.

By turns lyrical, wistful, poignant, and chilling, From the Dust Returned is the long-awaited new novel by the peerless Ray Bradbury — a book that will surely be numbered among his most enduring masterworks.

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Ray Bradbury -- the masterful author who in 2000 received the National Book Award's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters -- offers a long-anticipated novel that was 55 years in the making. From the Dust Returned features one of his most beloved creations: the Elliott family, the original inspiration behind Charles Addams's Addams Family.
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If there's a fountain of youth, Bradbury has found it. In the 1940s, at the start of his extraordinary writing career, Bradbury produced a series of popular fantasy short stories about the Elliot family, an assortment of vampires and other odd creatures of various degrees of humanity living in a Victorian castle in the golden Indiana of his youth. More than half a century later, he has fashioned from these stories a novel, funny, beautiful, sad and wise, to rank with his finest work. Full of wide-eyed wonder and dazzling imagery, the stories retain as an integrated whole all their original freshness and charm. The plot is simplicity itself: the vampires and their weird kin gather for a homecoming and share memories. Among them are Timothy, a foundling, whose pet spider is named Arach (originally Spid), and Cecy, immobile in bed but able to enter the minds of others and control their actions. Once, Cecy got a young woman to treat an unwanted but worthy suitor more politely than she would have otherwise: "Peering down from the secret attic of this lovely head, Cecy yanked a hidden copper ventriloquist's wire and the pretty mouth popped wide: `Thank you.' " Einar, a winged man, acts as a kite for children, writing "a great and magical exclamation mark across a cloud!" Most memorable of a remarkable cast are A Thousand Times Great Grand-Mere, who had been "a pharaoh's daughter dressed in spider linens," and her husband, Grand-Pere, who after four thousand years still has ideas. "At your age!" she snaps. This book will shame the cynics and delight the true believers who never lost faith in their beloved author. (Oct. 8) FYI: Last fall Bradbury received the National Book Foundation's 2000 Medalfor Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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Bradbury is the author of over 500 published works in a variety of genres, among them such classics as Fahrenheit 451. In a novel first conceived over 50 years ago, he reintroduces readers to the unforgettable Elliott family. (The Elliotts originally appeared in Bradbury's debut short-story collection, Dark Carnival, 1948, which was later reprinted in 1955 as The October Country.) Written in trademark Bradbury style, the book reads like liquid poetry while telling the interconnected stories of a number of unusual yet strangely familiar family members. The actions and reactions of Timothy, a family foundling who functions as their historian (and also happens to be human and therefore remarkable), serve as the common thread linking many of these tales. The book's publication coincides with the publisher's launch of a new author web site at www.raybradbury.com. A new novel by Bradbury is an event worth noting, and this is a necessary purchase for all public libraries. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/15/01.] Rachel Singer Gordon, Franklin Park Lib., IL Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780380789610
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 9/28/2002
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 288
  • Sales rank: 233,799
  • Product dimensions: 4.18 (w) x 6.75 (h) x 0.72 (d)

Meet the Author

Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury is the author of dozens of books and hundreds of stories. Among his best-known works are Fahrenheit 451, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. An Emmy Award winner for his teleplay The Halloween Tree and an Academy Award nominee, Mr. Bradbury was also honored by the National Book Foundation with a medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Winner of a National Medal of Arts and a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation and named a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters, France's highest cultural award, he lives in Los Angeles.

Biography

Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than 500 published works -- short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse -- exemplify the American imagination at its most creative.

Once read, his words are never forgotten. His best-known and most beloved books -- The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Fahrenheit 451, and Something Wicked This Way Comes -- are masterworks that readers carry with them over a lifetime. His timeless, constant appeal to audiences young and old has proven him to be one of the truly classic authors of the 20th Century -- and the 21st.

Ray Bradbury's work has been included in several Best American Short Story collections. He has been awarded the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the PEN Center USA West Lifetime Achievement Award, among others. In recognition of his stature in the world of literature and the impact he has had on so many for so many years, Bradbury was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2000 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and the National Medal of Arts in 2004.

On the occasion of his 80th birthday in August 2000, Bradbury said, "The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. The feeling I have every day is very much the same as it was when I was twelve. In any event, here I am, eighty years old, feeling no different, full of a great sense of joy, and glad for the long life that has been allowed me. I have good plans for the next ten or twenty years, and I hope you'll come along."

Good To Know

In our exclusive interview with Bradbury, he shared some fascinating facts with us:

"I spent three years standing on a street corner, selling newspapers, making ten dollars a week. I did that job every day for three hours and the rest of the time I wrote because I was in love with writing. The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love."

"I have been inspired by libraries and the magic they contain and the people that they represent."

"I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them -- one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking."

    1. Also Known As:
      Leonard Douglas, William Elliott, Douglas Spaulding, Leonard Spaulding
      Ray Bradbury
    2. Hometown:
      Los Angeles, California
    1. Date of Birth:
      August 22, 1920
    2. Place of Birth:
      Waukegan, Illinois
    1. Education:
      Attended schools in Waukegan, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California
    2. Website:
      http://www.raybradbury.com

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Chapter One



The Town and the Place



At first, A Thousand Times Great Grandmère said, there was only a place on the long plain of grass and a hill on which was nothing at all but more grass and a tree that was as crooked as a fork of black lightning on which nothing grew until the town came and the House arrived.

We all know how a town can gather need by need until suddenly its heart starts up and circulates the people to their destinations. But how, you ask, does a house arrive?

The fact is that the tree was there and a lumberman passing to the Far West leaned against it, and guessed it to be before Jesus sawed wood and shaved planks in his father's yard or Pontius Pilate washed his palms. The tree, some said, beckoned the House out of tumults of weather and excursions of Time. Once the House was there, with its cellar roots deep in Chinese tombyards, it was of such a magnificence, echoing facades last seen in London, that wagons, intending to cross the river, hesitated with their families gazing up and decided if this empty place was good enough for a papal palace, a royal monument, or a queen's abode, there hardly seemed a reason to leave. So the wagons stopped, the horses were watered, and when the families looked, they found their shoes as well as their souls had sprouted roots. So stunned were they by the House up there by the lightning-shaped tree, that they feared if they left the House would follow in their dreams and spoil all the waiting places ahead.

So the House arrived first and its arrival was the stuff offurther legends, myths, or drunken nonsense.

It seems there was a wind that rose over the plains bringing with it a gentle rain that turned into a storm that funneled a hurricane of great strength. Between midnight and dawn, this portmanteau-storm lifted any moveable object between the fort towns of Indiana and Ohio, stripped the forests in upper Illinois, and arrived over the as-yet-unborn site, settled, and with the level hand of an unseen god deposited, shakeboard by shakeboard and shingle by shingle, an arousal of timber that shaped itself long before sunrise as something dreamed of by Rameses but finished by Napoleon fled from dreaming Egypt.

There were enough beams within to roof St. Peter's and enough windows to sun-blind a bird migration. There was a porch skirted all around with enough space to rock a celebration of relatives and boarders. Inside the windows loomed a cluster, a hive, a maze of rooms, sufficient to a roster, a squad, a battalion of as yet unborn legions, but haunted by the promise of their coming.

The House, then, was finished and capped before the stars dissolved into light and it stood alone on its promontory for many years, somehow failing to summon its future children. There must be a mouse in every warren, a cricket on every hearth, smoke in the multitudinous chimneys, and creatures, almost human, icing every bed. Then: mad dogs in yards, live gargoyles on roofs. All waited for some immense thunderclap of the long departed storm to shout: Begin!

And, finally, many long years later, it did.

From the Dust Returned. Copyright © by Ray Bradbury. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

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One of Ray Bradbury's most precious childhood memories is of Halloweens spent at his grandparents' home with his beloved Aunt Neva, only ten years older than he. It was she who instilled in him his lifelong love of this most magical of holidays. Many of the characters from that long ago time have been given a life - and after-life - of their own, in Bradbury's eagerly anticipated new book From the Dust Returned.The story is set in the family home in an area of Illinois that Bradbury refers to as the "October Country." Bradbury's descriptions of the house - with its multitude of rooms and ninety-nine or one hundred chimneys - conjure an image of the ultimate haunted mansion.The main residents are Father, who must sleep during daylight hours; Mother, who doesn't sleep at all; A Thousand Times Great Grandmère, whose "life" spans more than four thousand years back to ancient Egypt; daughter Cecy, who sleeps day and night in order to dream-travel her way into all manner of living beings; and an adopted son, Timothy, who is clearly not like the others. The family anticipates a "Homecoming," the visitation of dozens of aunts, uncles and cousins in their various forms. There's Uncle Einar, larger than life with his huge green wings; the four cousins, all in love with and in need of Cecy; John the Unjust, who proves to be the family's undoing; and a host of other unforgettable characters.The family must decide who they are, why they exist, and what they represent. Ultimately, they heed Great Grandmère's prophetic warnings, and disperse, scattering to the winds in order to survive before they are set upon by a mob of fearful townspeople.Richly allegorical, From the Dust Returned explores family relationships and universal, time-tested themes of love, belonging, sense of place, and the meaning of life and death. Topics for Discussion
  • With a family "history" that spans more than 4,000 years, the passage of time has a far different meaning to Elliott family members than it might have for us. How much time might have passed from the beginning of the story, when Cecy goes off in search of love, to Tom's return at the end? What do you think Bradbury is saying about our relationship to time and space?
  • Cecy declares, "If I can't be in love … because I'm odd, then I'll be in love through someone else." [p.22] Discuss this line of thinking and what the author might be saying about vicarious experience in contemporary society.
  • Her parents warn that Cecy might be "diminished" should she marry "a mere earth-bound creature," yet she appears to be ready to do so. [p. 32] If you had Cecy's ability to experience the world through others' eyes, would you consider it a gift or a liability? Explain.
  • Upon discovering the abandoned baby, Father insists, "He is not like us." Mother replies, "No, but still." Make an argument for both sides: Should the Family keep the baby or not? Had the Dark Lady not intervened, who do you think would have prevailed? Why?
  • Cecy "visits" a lonely farmer's wife by a salt sea, near the mud pots [p. 60] and tells Timothy that she intends to stay "until I've listened and looked and felt enough to change her life." Yet, as she departs, now in the form of a bird, she sees the woman sinking in a pool of mud - indeed a life-changing event. Under what circumstances can death be an acceptable alternative to life? Was this scene one such circumstance?
  • Discuss the story of the ghastly passenger on the Orient Express. Do you agree with his characterization of Americans as doubters, the French as cynics, and the English as the only believers? [pp. 95-96] Why would he have felt equally assaulted by atheists as well as true believers? "Poisonous talk and delirious chatter" cause the passenger to wilt. How does modern technology contribute to our own deterioration?
  • Nostrum Paracelsius Crook insists that the Family define themselves for the first time [p. 111], yet their process is interrupted by the ghastly passenger seeking refuge, who says, "Ask not for whom the funeral bell tolls . . .." Discuss the Family's decision in the context of meeting individual personal needs versus an obligation to assist others.
  • Father provides Timothy a history of "the rising tide of disbelief," saying, "So Christians and Muslims confront a world torn by many wars to finalize yet a larger." He then poses the question, "Does the unholy or holy win?" [p. 117] Discuss your reaction to Father's explanation, especially in light of recent world events. Knowing that some of the stories in this book were originally written more than fifty years ago, when do you suppose that Bradbury wrote this particular passage?
  • In Chapter 15, Uncle Einar resigns himself to marriage, once he can no longer travel in the manner to which he has become accustomed. He changes his diet and sleeping habits; his wife, in turn, makes him more comfortable. Do you believe that the secret to a successful marriage is this kind of give-and-take? Should spouses change to meet the needs of each other?
  • From Angelina Marguerite, Timothy learns the lesson, "Make haste to live." [Chapter 18] If you found yourself growing ever younger, as did Angelina, would you be as likely to "make haste to live" as you might if the reverse were true, and you were rapidly aging? Instead of "ashes to ashes, dust to dust," could you embrace a philosophy of "angels and flowers?"
  • Great Grandmère has been both ignored and forgotten by "a Family eager for survival and forgetful of unremembered deaths' leftovers." [p. 174] Why is a family's history important? What can we do to preserve and record ours?
  • Ray Bradbury once said of his stories that they are warnings, not predictions. "If they were predictions I wouldn't do them, because then I'd be part of a doom-ridden psychology. Every time I name the problem, I try to give the solution." Spend some time talking about the problems Bradbury has identified in From the Dust Returned, and the solutions he presents as well.
About the Author: Ray Bradbury first wrote about the Elliott family more than fifty years ago in "Homecoming," a short story that appeared in the October 1946 issue of Mademoiselle magazine. The story was illustrated by Charles Addams, creator of "The Addams Family," and Addams and Bradbury hoped to one day collaborate on an Elliott family book. Though his stories are closer to fantasy than science fiction - and closer to reality than fantasy - Bradbury is regarded as a giant of science fiction today. Among his many books are The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The October Country, and Fahrenheit 451. He is the winner of numerous awards for his books and screenplays, and was Idea Consultant for the United States Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair. He has also worked as a consultant on city engineering and rapid transit, and helped design several malls in California, where he currently resides. In November 2000, Bradbury was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2000 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives with his wife, Marguerite, in Los Angeles.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 1, 2002

    Bradbury is a GREAT author...

    I read in a review that this book will eventually find its way into the fall season pretty much the same way Dickens¿s ¿A Christmas Carol¿ has found it¿s way to the holiday season. I agree wholeheartedly with that statement. What a beautiful fall book. The characters are awesome and Bradbury¿s use of imagery is amazing. Picture a warm yet windy fall evening with the perfect amount of fall leaves floating around your feet and you have the picture that IS this book. There are a lot of different stories woven into ¿From the Dust Returned¿, but they all work well together and tie up perfectly at the end. A great book! This book would even be great to read through and choose passages for kids on Halloween night. I really enjoyed this book!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 1, 2010

    vivid read

    Ray Bradbury's masterpiece, From the Dust Returned, is a strange tale of an unusual family that all live in a house that was said to be made from debris from a hurricane.You could say these family members had a bit of a dark side and you would be correct because they are all monsters. Each individual character had that same common characteristic but each one was different from the next and completely different from the rest. That same diversity showed in the whole story not just in the characters traits but in the plot. This book is definitely targeted for people with large vocabularies. It was a great book and I would suggest it to most anyone.
    I always loved ray Bradbury's books and this one was definitely a great addition to his works. Although it was hard to understand in the beginning, it became clearer what mister Bradbury was trying to get across later in the book. Almost all the aspects of the book were more than satisfactory. I especially loved his vivid language. His description of Timothy's flight with uncle Einar was so exact I could see it happening turn by turn in my head.
    No other author of this genre could compare to ray's work of art, not even himself. This is his best book yet I can't wait for the next one.
    This book was a colorful entertaining descriptive story that I won't soon forget. I think anyone that enjoys reading should try this book. I am sure that you would enjoy it, I sure know that I have. No other author will satisfy you after you read this don't miss out on his most epic novel yet.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 6, 2008

    A Wonderful read

    I read this book years ago, yet the plot and beautiful language has stuck with me throughout the years. Bradbury makes each character so unique in his/her own way yet strings them all together in an unforgettable tale. I would Highly recommend this book to anyone

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 24, 2005

    From The Dust Returned: Outstanding

    Bradbury does a wonderful job with this one. His use of poetic language and imagery is very interesting. I enjoyed this book very much and would recommaned it to anyone.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 29, 2005

    The magic of the October people

    Ray Bradbury's From the Dust Returned will make you remember why you fell in love with Halloween as a child. Just a gorgeous read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 25, 2005

    A Top-Notch Read

    This has to be one of Bradbury's best. The plot is excellent, the characters are realistic, and the pacing is top-notch. To think that Bradbury pasted this masterwork together from a few short stories that he wrote in the 40's. That is an amazing fact within itself. Highly recommened.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 26, 2004

    Not a dusty story at all.

    Wonderfully vintage Bradbury! Tight dialogue and excellent plotting, plus whimsical memories of a childhood lost in time. Superb!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 28, 2004

    Inspiring

    This book truely incompases the feeling of fall and the taste of October. It personifies the characteristics of every story ever written about ghouls, vampires, witches, or any other creature that makes fear seize you in the dark. Its beauty is in its telling but the soul lies inside the mind altering story of the Elliot Family.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 19, 2003

    I loved the Book! Ray Bradbury's a GREAT author!!!

    This book was great, I loved it! The other book, Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury was great too! I can't wait to read his other books!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 28, 2002

    Awesome book

    I recently read this book for a book report and I loved it! Ray Bradbury is a great author and I love his books. At points i got confused, but this is an excellent story. This is the second book I 've read (the first was Farhenheit 451) by Ray Bradbury and it's wonderful. I definetly recommend this book. The book is wierd, funny, and sad. The characters are lovable and made me want to read even further into the book. r.b.l

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 2, 2002

    Life With the Monsters

    Mr. Bradbury's book was an incredible journey into the life of a different type of family, made up of the creatures of the night. The writing is pure Bradbury with amazing descriptions of strange and wonderful places and the thoughts and emotions of some of the characters. This is not a full story, per se, but mainly a series of vignettes about the "Elliot" familly. Several of the chapters have been previously published. But what an amazing book. And it took Mr. Bradbury only 55 years to complete! Read it and you will be transported to his weird and wonderful world.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 18, 2002

    Weird.............

    I just read this book and it isssss hmmmmm I can't even describe it in words! I mean this is the weirdest book I HAVE EVER READ. Not that the book is horrible, but it made no sence to me why it was written, not until the end of the book, when I read about the author's family, and the fact that alot of his life experience is in this book especially his family and parts of his childhood. But it is a book to read for people who are intrested in the works of literature.....WHAT AN IMAGINATIVE MIND THE AUTHOR HAS I HAVE TO TELL YOU!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 28, 2002

    A Beautiful Book

    This book is full of incredible imagery and wonderful imagination. I loved it! A bit bizarre--you'll never forget the characters--but definitely worth reading. Although you wouldn't expect a sci-fi story to be literary and poetic, this one definitely is. Even if you don't like sci-fi, you'll appreciate the way Bradbury tells the story.

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