{"product_id":"the-illustrated-man-isbn-9780380973842","title":"The Illustrated Man","description":"\u003cem\u003e“Sometimes at night I can feel them, the pictures, like ants, crawling on my skin. Then I know they’re doing what they have to do . . . ”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFantasy master Ray Bradbury weaves a narrative spanning fromthe depths of humankind’s fears to the summit of their achievements in eighteeninterconnected stories—visions of the future tattooed onto the body of anenigmatic traveler—in \u003cem\u003eThe Illustrated Man\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the essential classicsof speculative fiction from the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Martian Chronicles\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDandelionWine\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe October Country\u003c\/em\u003e. | \u003cp\u003eRay Bradbury brings wonders alive. A peerless American storyteller, his oeuvre has been celebrated for decades—from \u003cem\u003eThe Martian Chronicles\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFahrenheit 451\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eDandelion Wine\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSomething Wicked This Way Comes.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Illustrated Man\u003c\/em\u003e is classic Bradbury—a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind’s destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin—visions as keen as the tattooist’s needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe images, ideas, sounds, and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast, empty space of stars and blackness . . . the sight of grey dust settling over a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowhere . . . the pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father’s clothing. Here living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRay Bradbury’s \u003cem\u003eThe Illustrated Man\u003c\/em\u003e is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth, widely believed to be one of the grandmaster’s premier accomplishments: as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“One of this country’s most beloved writers…A great storyteller, sometimes even a mythmaker, a true American classic.”   - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Without Ray Bradbury there would be no Stephen King, at least as he grew. Bradbury was one of my nurturing influences. First in EC Comics, then in Weird Tales... What was striking was how far down the viscera he was able to delve into these stories—how far beyond the prudish stopped-point of his 1940s contemporaries. In that sense, Ray was to the horror story what D.H. Lawrence was to the story of sexual love.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen King\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“How I passed so much of my life without devouring everything Ray Bradbury has ever read is beyond me...on the bright side, how fortunate I am to experience all this for the first time! My God.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eR. F. Kuang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A prescient, lyrical writer with an abiding hatred for intolerance, Bradbury influenced generations of readers and many of our most famous dreamers, from Stephen King to Steven Spielberg.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJunot Diaz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888550277349,"sku":"NP9780380973842","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780380973842.jpg?v=1730229321","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-illustrated-man-isbn-9780380973842","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}