Death is a lonely business

Annotation to the book "Death is a Lonely Business" by Bradbury R.D.: A world-class master who combines the incompatible in literature. The creator of such textbook masterpieces as "The Martian Chronicles", "Dandelion Wine", "Fahrenheit 451" and so on and so forth. Winner of many literary awards. This is Ray Bradbury. The magical realism of his prose, the man-made mechanisms of joy that transfer a person from the present to the magical worlds of childhood, the miracle of initiation into the great mystery of Literature, generously gifted to the reader, have long brought Ray Bradbury to the classical orbit. Bradbury's novel, written more than twenty years after "Trouble This Way Comes", surprised everyone. "Death is a Lonely Business" is a tribute to the "hard-boiled" detectives of R. Chandler and D. Hammett and the classic Hollywood noir. Read more...