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Jannes: Interconnected stories abour childhood and endless summers. Bradbury is more fantastical, while Jansson leans more to the realistic and understated, but both books runs over with wonderful and lyrical prose, and both captures a sense of childhood and summer in a way that is very rare.… (mere)
USA, 1928 Drengen Douglas Spaulding er 12 år gammel og vi følger ham i de tre måneder gennem sommeren 1928, hvor han bliver bevidst om sig selv og sin fremtid.
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For Walter I. Bradbury neither uncle nor cousin but most decidedly editor and friend.
Første ord
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It was a quiet morning, the town covered over with darkness and at ease in bed.
Citater
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"Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies....Dig in the earth, delve in the soul. Spring those mower blades and walk in the spray of the Fountain of Youth."
"Dawn, then, was a time where things changed element for element. Air ran like hot spring water howhere, with no sound. The lake was a quantity of steam very still and deep over valleys of fish and sand held baking under its serene vaports. Tar was poured licorise in the streets...."
Douglas's mouth was slightly open and from his lips and from the thin vents of his nostrils, gently there rose a scent of cool night and cool water and cool white snow and cool green moss, and cool moonlight on silver pebbles lying at the bottom of a quiet river and cool clear water at the bottom of a small white stone well.
.It was like holding their heads down for a brief moment to the purse of an apple-scented fountain flowing cool up into the air and washing their faces....They could not move for a long time."
Sidste ord
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Drengen Douglas Spaulding er 12 år gammel og vi følger ham i de tre måneder gennem sommeren 1928, hvor han bliver bevidst om sig selv og sin fremtid.
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