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Cargando... Venus Rememberedpor Ray Bradbury
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NINE YEAR OLD Margot remembers the sun. "[A] yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world with . . . a warmness, like a blushing in the face, in the body, in the arms and legs and trembling hands." In Ray Bradbury's revered short story, "All Summer in a Day," the last time Margot saw the sun was when she was four years old and still living on Earth. After her family moved to Venus a year later, she longed to see the sun again and to feel its warmth on her skin. On the one day every seven years when it stops raining on Venus and the sun breaks through the perpetual cloud cover to brighten the landscape for a brief two hours, Margot is locked away in a dark closet by her jealous classmates. Readers familiar with the graceful and poetic writing of Ray Bradbury - and those new to his literary magic - will find themselves empathetic toward a young girl who is kept from feeling and seeing the sunlight by her mean-spirited peers. Jump forward in time and meet Margot at 16. In the story "When the Rain Stops," Jason Marchi provides one plausible and satisfying answer to the question left in readers' minds at the end of Bradbury's classic tale of aloneness - whatever happened to Margot? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Margot was four when her family left their home on Earth and came to live on Venus. She remembers the sun from her days on Earth, but Venus is a place of perpetual rain and the sun only appears once every seven years . . . and only for two hours.
“I think the sun is a flower,” she writes, “That blooms for just one hour.”
It’s time for the sun to appear but Margot won’t be able to see it for her mean-spirited classmates have locked her away in a closet, leaving her all alone. What will happen to Margot?
* * * * *
Seven more years have passed; now Margot is preparing to leave Venus and return to Earth where she’ll attend a Boston university. She plans to become a geologist. Or a meteorologist.
But it seems as if there’s a problem with the rocket . . . .
Margot, a lonely child in the first story, a young adult in the second, is the focus of both stories. Venus, with its ever-present rainfall, is a difficult adjustment for the young girl. And the trauma of her classmates locking her in the closet only adds to her difficulties. It’s a treat to have the second story to speculate on what might have happened to Margot after her release from the locked cabinet. The two stories are a seamless fit, as if their relationship was the result of a perfect plan between the two authors. And the reader reaps the pleasure.
Appearing in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1954, Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” has enjoyed a lasting popularity. IN 2002, Verbicide published Jason Marchi’s “When the Rain Stops,” a sequel to the Bradbury story, a look at what might have happened to Margot.
Published together for the first time, this special volume also includes a foreword by William F. Nolan, an introduction by Doctor Jonathan R. Eller, and discussion suggestions for creative writing students.
Highly recommended.
I received a free copy of this eBook from Fahrenheit Books and NetGalley
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