The October Country

Description

"The October Country is many places: a picturesque Mexican village where death is a tourist attraction; a city beneath the city where drowned lovers are silently reunited; a carnival midway where a tiny man's most cherished fantasy can be fulfilled night after night. Each of the stories in Ray Bradbury's masterful collection is a wonder, imagined by an acclaimed tale-teller writing from a place of shadows. But there is astonishing beauty here as well, born from a prose that enchants and enthralls, that chills like a long-after-midnight wind, that lifts the reader high above a sleeping Earth on strange wings."--P. [4] of cover.

First Sentence

... that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay.

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Other Editions

• The October CountryPaperbackBallantine Books1993-06-01
• The October country.Ballantine Books1955-01-01
• The October countryRupert Hart-Davis1956-01-01
• The October CountryFour Square1964-11-01
• October CountryMass Market PaperbackBallantine Books1968-07-12
• The October countryBallantine Books1969-06-01