{"product_id":"2940170776351","title":"The Illustrated Man","description":"Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. A peerless American storyteller, his oeuvre has been celebrated for decades-from \u003ci\u003ethe Martian Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFahrenheit 451\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eDandelion Wine\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSomething Wicked This Way Comes\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Illustrated Man\u003c\/i\u003e is classic Bradbury-a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe images, ideas, sounds, and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast, empty space of stars and blackness; the sight of grey dust settling over a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowhere; the pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father's clothing. Here living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBradbury's \u003ci\u003eThe Illustrated Man\u003c\/i\u003e is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth, widely believed to be one of the grandmaster's premier accomplishments: as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stories contained in \u003ci\u003eThe Illustrated Man\u003c\/i\u003e are \"Prologue: The Illustrated Man,\" \"The Veldt,\" \"Kaleidoscope,\" \"The Other Foot,\" \"The Highway,\" \"The Man,\" \"The Long Rain,\" \"The Rocket Man,\" \"The Last Night of the World,\" \"The Exiles,\" \"No Particular Night or Morning,\" \"The Fox and the Forest,\" \"The Visitor,\" \"The Concrete Mixer,\" \"Marionettes, Inc. ,\" \"The City,\" \"Zero Hour,\" \"The Rocket,\" and \"The Illustrated Man.\"","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105128595696,"sku":"2940170776351","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170776351_p0.jpg?v=1763717289","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170776351","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}