The Illustrated Man

Resumen del libro

A classic collection of stories - all told on the skin of a man - from the author of Fahrenheit 451. If El Greco had painted miniatures in his prime, no bigger than your hand, infinitely detailed, with his sulphurous colour and exquisite human anatomy, perhaps he might have used this man's body for his art...Yet the Illustrated Man has tried to burn the illustrations off. He's tried sandpaper, acid, and a knife.

Because, as the sun sets, the pictures glow like charcoals, like scattered gems. They quiver and come to life. Tiny pink hands gesture, tiny mouths flicker as the figures enact their stories - voices rise, small and muted, predicting the future.

Here are sixteen tales: sixteen illustrations...the seventeenth is your own future told on the skin of the Illustrated Man.

Biografía del autor

L'escriptor nord-americà Ray Bradbury (Waukegan, Illinois, 1920 - Los Angeles, 2012) ha estat autor de novel-la curta i d'assaig, dramaturg, guionista i poeta, i va escriure dos clàssics de ciència ficció: Fahrenheit 451, una crítica mordaç de la censura en un món que té prohibida la paraula, i Les cròniques marcianes, sobre uns primers intents terrestres de colonitzar Mart, de conseqüències inesperades.Un dels més grans i famosos escriptors nord-americans, en part responsable de l'imaginari col-lectiu que la gent del segle XX es va fer sobre el segle XXI.