In the afterword, the author mentions that it cost $9.80 in 1950 to write this novel, renting a typewriter one dime at a time. The result of those dimes is a classic story about censorship - "firemen" who start fires in the homes of anyone thought to be harboring a book. Guy Montag is one of those firemen, but early in the novel he has a rush of conscience brought to him by his seventeen-year-old neighbor Clarisse. After Guy sees one woman burn to death atop her library, and after Clarisse goes missing, Montag strikes back against the establishment. I have always enjoyed Bradbury, and this book works just as well more than sixty years after it was written.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
In the afterword, the author mentions that it cost $9.80 in 1950 to write this novel, renting a typewriter one dime at a time. The result of those dimes is a classic story about censorship - "firemen" who start fires in the homes of anyone thought to be harboring a book. Guy Montag is one of those firemen, but early in the novel he has a rush of conscience brought to him by his seventeen-year-old neighbor Clarisse. After Guy sees one woman burn to death atop her library, and after Clarisse goes missing, Montag strikes back against the establishment. I have always enjoyed Bradbury, and this book works just as well more than sixty years after it was written.
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