{"product_id":"fahrenheit-451-reissue","title":"Fahrenheit 451 (Reissue)","description":"\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMarc Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOriginally published in 1951.;Fahrenheit 451-- the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns--.;The sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman;personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author;a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Nelson Algren, Harold Bloom, Margaret Atwood, and others;rare manuscript pages and sketches from Ray Bradbury's personal archive--Cover p. [4].;In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Brilliant . . . Startling and ingenious . . . Mr. Bradbury's account of this insane world, which bears many alarming resemblances to our own, is fascinating.\" --Orville Prescott, \n\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A masterpiece . . . A glorious American classic everyone should read: It's life-changing if you read it as a teen, and still stunning when you reread it as an adult.\" --Alice Hoffman, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"The sheer lift and power of a truly original imagination exhilarates . . . His is a very great and unusual talent.\" --Christopher Isherwood, \n\u003ci\u003eTomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"One of this country's most beloved writers . . . A great storyteller, sometimes even a mythmaker, a true American classic.\" --Michael Dirda, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel \u003ci\u003eFahrenheit 451 \u003c\/i\u003estands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGuy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television \"family.\" But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/12\/2024 pg. 1 (EAN 9781451673319, Paperback)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eBradbury, Ray\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRay Bradbury (1920-2012) was the author of more than three dozen books, including \n\u003ci\u003eFahrenheit 451\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Martian Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Illustrated Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \n\u003ci\u003eSomething Wicked This Way Comes\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as hundreds of short stories. He wrote for the theater, cinema, and TV, including the screenplay for John Huston's \n\u003ci\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/i\u003e and the Emmy Award-winning teleplay \n\u003ci\u003eThe Halloween Tree\u003c\/i\u003e, and adapted for television sixty-five of his stories for \n\u003ci\u003eThe Ray Bradbury Theater\u003c\/i\u003e. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and numerous other honors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bradbury, Ray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePub Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2012-01-10\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC:\u003c\/b\u003e Fiction \/ Classics|Fiction \/ Science Fiction \/ General|Fiction \/ Media Tie-In\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSubjects:\u003c\/b\u003e Totalitarianism|Book burning|Censorship|FICTION \/ Classics|FICTION \/ Media Tie-In|FICTION \/ Science Fiction|Fiction|Satirical literature|State-sponsored terrorism|Political fiction|Science fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781451673319\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eASIN:\u003c\/b\u003e -\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSKU:\u003c\/b\u003e SP-9781451673319\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52374549889305,"sku":"SP-9781451673319","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0913\/0380\/5209\/files\/9781451673319_spiral.png?v=1778478850","url":"https:\/\/westbindery.com\/products\/fahrenheit-451-reissue","provider":"West Bindery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}