Elated, Douglas sets off with his friends John Huff and Charlie Woodman to complete the list.ĭouglas is saddened when an electric car called the Green Machine is put into storage. Sanderson decides to give him the shoes if he runs a list of errands. Sanderson, a shoe salesman, compelling the man to reminisce on his own childhood. Before he can truly relish summer, Douglas believes that he needs the new Royal Crown Cream-Sponge Para Litefoot Tennis Shoes. The act of making the wine becomes a ritual, and they brew a new batch at the end of each summer month. Around this time, he brews dandelion wine with his grandfather and Tom, his ten-year-old brother. It is well known for developing a sense of youthful wonder about the simple joys of growing up in small-town American life.Īt the beginning of the summer of 1928, Douglas has a sudden epiphany about the preciousness and beauty of life, perceiving the world as if it were brand new. Highly nostalgic in style, the story is loosely based on Bradbury’s own childhood. The story follows Douglas Spaulding, a twelve-year-old boy who lives in Waukegan, Illinois, known colloquially as “Green Town.” The title is a reference to a wine made out of dandelion petals, which Spaulding’s grandfather brews while relating it to a metaphor for the process of packing the essence of summer into a bottle. It can be a best friend moving away, a human time machine who can transport you back to the Civil War, or a sideshow automaton able to glimpse the bittersweet future.Ĭome and savor Ray Bradbury's priceless distillation of all that is eternal about boyhood and summer.Dandelion Wine (1957) is a coming-of-age novel by Ray Bradbury, best known as one of the fathers of speculative fiction.
But as young Douglas is about to discover, summer can be more than the repetition of established rituals whose mystical power holds time at bay. It is yesteryear and tomorrow blended into an unforgettable always. It is a pair of brand-new tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfather's renowned intoxicant, the distant clang of the trolley's bell on a hazy afternoon.
Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond the city limits. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author's most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928. Ray Bradbury's moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. About the Book During one golden summer in 1928, twelve-year-old Douglas and his brother wander in and out of the lives of their elders.
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