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Death is a Lonely Business. Also by Ray Bradbury. Death-is a lonely-business. No. The tide rose again in a gesture like a stance remembered from some other night.

Death is a Lonely Business. Venice, California, in the old days had much to recommend it to people who liked to be sad. It had fog almost every night and along the shore the moaning of the oil well machinery and the slap of dark water in the canals and the hiss of sand against the windows of your house when the wind came up and sang among the open places and along the empty walks. And the ghost shape rose again within the cage. It was a dead man wanting out.

Death Is a Lonely Business is a mystery novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, published in 1985. The story, set in 1949, is about a series of murders that happen in Venice, California, then a declining seaside community in Los Angeles where Bradbury lived from 1942 to 1950. The main character and narrator (who never mentions his name) is a sensitive, modest writer, with a girlfriend studying in Mexico City.

He hurled the towel at me. I caught it. "Get my back for me, will you?". I hurled the towel away. It fell and hung over his head, masking his face. The Horrible Hun was, for a moment, gone. The Horrible Hun was, for a moment, gone un King Apollo, his rump as bright as the apples of the gods, remained. From under the towel his voice said quietly: "The interview is over. Did it ever really begin?". I went downstairs as the dragon's sick calliope music was coming up. There were no words at all on the Venice Cinema marquee. All the letters were gone. Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early 1950s. Toiling away amid the looming palm trees and decaying bungalows, a struggling young writer (who bears a resemblance to the author) spins fantastic stories from his fertile imagination upon his clacking typewriter.

Death Is a Lonely Business book. Author: Ray Bradbury. It is the first in a series of three mystery novels that Bradbury wrote featuring a fictionalized version of the author himself as the unnamed narrator. Toiling away amid the looming palm trees and decaying bungalows, a struggling young writer (who bears a resemblance to the author) spins fantastic stories from his fertile imagination upon his clacking typewriter

Ray Bradbury is noted for his science fiction books, which I have never read, but I was recommended this book (his rare effort . I bought two of his newest books, one of which is the aforementioned Death is a Lonely Business.

Ray Bradbury is noted for his science fiction books, which I have never read, but I was recommended this book (his rare effort to write in a genre that he loved - the mystery novel. This is a remarkable story of love and friendship and it also has a true psycopathic killer in it. The book is peopled with wonderful eccentric characters and its setting is a dying 1950's California seaside town. I began reading it late last night and just finished it a little more than an hour ago.

He adapted sixty-five of his stories for television's The Ray Bradbury Theater, and won an Emmy for his teleplay of The Halloween Tree. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, among many honors. Throughout his life, Bradbury liked to recount the story of meeting a carnival magician, Mr. Electrico, in 1932.

Death is a Lonely Business was Bradbury’s first novel in over thirty years, since the publication in 1962 of Something Wicked This Way Comes.