ray bradbury books something wicked this way comes

There may be a barely-glimpsed smaller novel buried in all this succotash (Tom's marriage and life as a football coach), but it's sadly overwhelmed by the book's clumsy central narrative device (flashback ad infinitum) and Conroy's pretentious prose style: ''There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory. It's his death that precipitates the nervous breakdown that costs Tom his job, and Savannah, almost, her life. There are enough traumas here to fall an average-sized mental ward, but the biggie centers around Luke, who uses the skills learned as a Navy SEAL in Vietnam to fight a guerrilla war against the installation of a nuclear power plant in Colleton and is killed by the authorities.

Susan (a shrink with a lot of time on her hands) says to Tom, 'Will you stay in New York and tell me all you know?' and he does, for nearly 600 mostly-bloated pages of flashbacks depicting The Family Wingo of swampy Colleton County: a beautiful mother, a brutal shrimper father (the Great Santini alive and kicking), and Tom and Savannah's much-admired older brother, Luke. Savannah, it turns out, is catatonic, and before the suicide attempt had completely assumed the identity of a dead friend-the implication being that she couldn't stand being a Wingo anymore. When he hears that his fierce, beautiful twin sister Savannah, a well-known New York poet, has once again attempted suicide, he escapes his present emasculation by flying north to meet Savannah's comely psychiatrist, Susan Lowenstein. Tom Wingo is an unemployed South Carolinian football coach whose internist wife is having an affair with a pompous cardiac man. As with all our sales of books within the UK, we only ever charge a flat standard delivery cost of £3.35.A flabby, fervid melodrama of a high-strung Southern family from Conroy ( The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline), whose penchant for overwriting once again obscures a genuine talent.

For this lavishly illustrated collector's edition, Tim McDonagh has provided seven colour illustrations dripping with carnivalesque menace. Something Wicked This Way Comes is a timeless classic of fantasy horror. According to the Folio Society, Ray Bradbury described this as the book he loved 'best of all the things I have written'. The size of the slip-cased book in inches is 9.8 x 6.6 and it weighs 0.84 kg. The book has 272 pages, a Frontispiece and 6 colour illustrations, including a double-page spread and a Blocked slipcase. The book is bound in blocked cloth and typeset in Columbus. Your copy will be sent in the Society's undisturbed shrink-wrapping so both the book and slip case will be in 'New' condition.

We bought our copies directly from The Folio Society. A Brand New copy of this hardback as published by The Folio Society circa 2019.

Ray bradbury books something wicked this way comes