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I’ve always been fascinated by elderly people They came and went in my life and I followed them and questioned them and learned from them, and that is primarily true in this novel because it is a novel about children and old people who are peculiar Time Machines

Many of the greatest friendships in hties or nineties and I welcomed the chance to ask the and learning from their responses

In a way, Farewell Su old people and daring to ask the to their answers The questions posed by Doug, and the answers given by Mr Quarteranization of the action of the chapters and the final resolution of the book

The bottom line here is that I am not the one in control I do not try to steer my characters; I let them live their lives and speak their truths as quickly as possible I listen, and write them down

Farewell Summer is actually an extension of o When I delivered it toWhy don’t we publish the first 90,000 words as a novel and keep the second part for some future year when you feel it is ready to be published’ At the time, I called the full, priinal title for ould becoht Even all those years ago, I had a title ready for this unborn book: Farewell Summer

So, it has taken all these years for the second part of Dandelion Wine to evolve to a point where I felt it was correct to send it out into the world During the ensuing years, I waited for those parts of the novel to attract further ideas and further metaphors to add richness to the text

Surprise is everything with ive myself instructions to startle reat adventures in letting this novel evolve:by revelations

The influence of randparents and h the narrative My grandfather was a very wise and patientMy grand of what ardener of the metaphors that became me She saw to it that I was fed all the best fairy tales, poetry, cinema, and theater, so that I was continually in a fever about life and eager to write it all down Today, all these years later, I still feel in the writing process that she is looking overwith pride

Beyond that there is very little to add except that I’ this novel is finished and I hope that there is pleasure in it for everyone It has been a great pleasure for aze up at the haunted house, to hear the deep gongs of the courthouse clock, to run through the ravine, to be kissed by a girl for the first time, and to listen to and learn froone before

FAREWELL SUMMER

One of the greatest writers of science fiction and fantasy in the world today, Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, in 1920 He eles in 1934 He published some 500 short stories, novels, plays, scripts and poems since his first story appeared in Weird Tales when he enty years old In 1947 he hters, non