The Day it Rained Forever. Ray Bradbury

The Day it Rained Forever - Ray  Bradbury


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      THE DAY IT RAINED FOREVER

      Ray Bradbury

      HarperVoyager An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 77–85 Fulham Palace Road Hammersmith, London, W6 8JB

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      First published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis 1959

      Published in Penguin Books 1963

      Copyright © Ray Bradbury 1959

       Cover design by Mike Topping. Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2014 Cover photographs © Shutterstock.com

      Ray Bradbury asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Ebook Edition © JULY 2014 ISBN: 9780007539819

      Version: 2014–07–18

       Dedication

      FOR

      RUPERT HART-DAVIS

      IN MEMORY OF

      THE TERRIBLE SKIRMISH

      THE TEMPORARY LOSS

      BUT OUR INEVITABLE VICTORY

      AT THE MIRABELLE

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

      Dedication

       Fever Dream

       Referent

       The Marriage Mender

       The Town Where No One Got Off

       Icarus Montgolfier Wright

       Almost the End of the World

       Dark They were and Golden-eyed

       The Smile

       Here there be Tygers

       The Headpiece

       Perchance to Dream

       The Time of Going Away

       The Gift

       The Little Mice

       The Sunset Harp

       A Scent of Sarsaparilla

       And the Rock Cried Out

       The Strawberry Window

       Keep Reading

       About the Author

       Also by the Author

       About the Publisher

      THE hotel stood like a hollowed dry bone under the very centre of the desert sky where the sun burned the roof all day. All night, the memory of the sun stirred in every room like the ghost of an old forest fire. Long after dusk, since light meant heat, the hotel lights stayed off. The inhabitants of the hotel preferred to feel their way blind through the halls in their never-ending search for cool air.

      This one particular evening Mr Terle, the proprietor, and his only boarders, Mr Smith and Mr Fremley, who looked and smelled like two ancient rags of cured tobacco, stayed late on the long veranda. In their creaking glockenspiel rockers, they gasped back and forth in the dark, trying to rock up a wind.

      ‘Mr Terle …? Wouldn’t it be really nice … some day … if you could buy … air conditioning …?’

      Mr Terle coasted a while, eyes shut.

      ‘Got no money for such things, Mr Smith.’

      The two old boarders


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