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Ray Bradbury

Death is a Lonely Business

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Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early 1950s.
Toiling away amid the looming palm trees and decaying bungalows, a struggling young writer (who bears a resemblance to the author) spins fantastic stories from his fertile imagination upon his clacking typewriter. Trying not to miss his girlfriend (away studying in Mexico), the nameless writer steadily crafts his literary effort--until strange things begin happening around him.
Starting with a series of peculiar phone calls, the writer then finds clumps of seaweed on his doorstep. But as the incidents escalate, his friends fall victim to a series of mysterious “accidents”--some of them fatal. Aided by Elmo Crumley, a savvy, street-smart detective, and a reclusive actress of yesteryear with an intense hunger for life, the wordsmith sets out to find the connection between the bizarre events, and in doing so, uncovers the truth about his own creative abilities.
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269 printed pages
Publication year
2013
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  • Anindya Khas quoted7 years ago
    A pale face, with empty eyes which took light from the moon, and showed nothing else, was there like a silver mask.
  • Anindya Khas quoted7 years ago
    “You look horrible.”
    “I feel horrible. You ever think something awful is going to happen, but you don’t know what?”
  • Leonid Bezrukovhas quoted12 years ago
    swayed steering them knew that in another year they would be gone, the tracks covered with concrete and tar and the high spider-wire col

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