The Machineries of Joy [Paperback]

Ray Bradbury (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 213 pages
• Publisher: Bantam Books; 17th edition (1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553028340
• ISBN-13: 978-0553028348
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,170,700 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ray Bradbury has published some 500 short stories, novels, plays and poems since his first story appeared in Weird Tales when he was twenty years old. Among his many famous works are 'Fahrenheit 451', 'The Illustrated Man' and 'The Martian Chronicles'.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Master at the Height of his Powers, January 14, 2004

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Avid Reader (Franklin, Tn) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Machineries of Joy (Hardcover)

This is vintage Bradbury - no punk, obscenity, fantasy, horror or sex. Just beautiful, succinct, wonderfully constructed short stories that give new meaning to the term "American Genius".

The stories range in subject matter from religion to space to family to war but through it all Bradbury explores the meaning of being human in all its wondrous degrees. There is more poetry in this prose than in most English books of poetry. Every single story - I mean every one! - is excellent, thought provoking and haunting. What a writer!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one of his best short-story collections...., June 6, 2000

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Craig Chalquist, PhD, author of TERRAPSYCHOLO... (Bay Area, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Machineries of Joy (Hardcover)

....I particularly liked "A Miracle of Rare Device." 21 tales by the master of the imaginative.