The illustrated man
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New York : Avon Books, [1997].
ISBN
0380973847, 9780380973842, 0965020460, 9780965020466
Lexile measure
680L
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Published
New York : Avon Books, [1997].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
ix, 275 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
ISBN
0380973847, 9780380973842, 0965020460, 9780965020466
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 4.4, 10 Points
Lexile measure
680

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Short stories originally published between 1948 and 1951.
Description
The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury - a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin - visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The 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 gray dust selling 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. Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man 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.
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680L,Lexile
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader,UG,4.4,10.
Study Program Information
Reading Counts,High School,4.9,11,NR.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,UG,4.4,10,68901.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Bradbury, R. (1997). The illustrated man (First edition.). Avon Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012. 1997. The Illustrated Man. Avon Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012. The Illustrated Man Avon Books, 1997.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Bradbury, Ray. The Illustrated Man First edition., Avon Books, 1997.

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