In a summer that refuses to end in the deceiving warmth of earliest Octobercivil war has come to Green Town Illinois. It is the ageold conflict theyoung against... » 

In a summer that refuses to end in the deceiving warmth of earliest Octobercivil war has come to Green Town Illinois. It is the ageold conflict theyoung against the elderly for control of the clock that ticks their lives everforward. The first cappistol shot heard round the town is dead accuratefelling an old man in his tracks compelling town elder and school board despotMr. Calvin C. Quartermain to marshal his graying forces and declare total waron the assassin thirteenyearold Douglas Spaulding and his downycheekedcohorts. Doug and his cronies however are most worthy adversaries who shouldnot be underestimated as they plan and execute daring campaignsmatching oldQuartermains experience and cunning with their youthful enthusiasm and devilmaycare determination to hold on forever to childhoods summer. Yet time mustultimately be the victor with valuable revelations for those on both sides ofthe conflict. And life waits in ambush to assail Doug Spaulding with itspowerful mysteriesthe irresistible ascent of manhood the sweet surrender toa first kiss . . . One of the most acclaimed and beloved of Americanstorytellers Ray Bradbury has come home revisiting the verdant landscape ofone of his most adored works Dandelion Wine More than fifty years in themaking the longawaited sequel Farewell Summer is a treasurebeautifulpoignant wistful hilarious sad evocative profound and unforgettable . . .and proof positive that the flame of wonder still burns brightly within theirrepressible imagination of the incomparable Bradbury. «