Farewell Summer---夏日永别

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In a summer that refuses to end, in the deceiving warmth of earliest October, civil war has come to Green Town, Illinois. It is the age-old conflict: the young against the elderly, for control of the clock that ticks their lives ever forward. The first cap-pistol shot heard 'round the town is dead accurate, felling an old man in his tracks, compelling town elder and school board despot Mr. Calvin C. Quartermain to marshal his graying forces and declare total war on the assassin, thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaulding, and his downy-cheeked cohorts. Doug and his cronies, however, are most worthy adversaries who should not be underestimated, as they plan and execute daring campaigns—matching old Quartermain's experience and cunning with their youthful enthusiasm and devil-may-care determination to hold on forever to childhood's summer. Yet time must ultimately be the victor, with valuable revelations for those on both sides of the conflict. And life waits in ambush to assail Doug Spaulding with its powerful mysteries—the irresistible ascent of manhood, the sweet surrender to a first kiss . . .--------------------《夏日永别》是《华氏451》作者、科幻大师雷•布拉德伯里生前出版的最后一部小说，一部关于童年夏天、时间与死亡的奇妙物语。这个故事花了漫长的五十五年成形，是成长小说代表作“绿镇三部曲”的完美收官，也回到了作者一生创作的原点。故事发生在1929年夏末，昔日慵懒平静的美国小镇迎来了一场战争：为了争夺对“时间机器”的控制权，一群少年组成军队，向老人们发起进攻，拒绝被时间困住，拒绝变成一个无聊的大人。在男孩们抗拒长大的同时，老人们则躲避着逃也逃不掉的死亡。这部小说如诗歌寓言般，穿梭于现实与梦幻之间，时缓时急地抓拍到了各种让人一夜成长、到老年都不敢承认的难忘时刻：重访绿镇，凝视鬼宅，聆听悠远的钟鸣，在河谷中奔跑，在墓地上舞蹈，第一次被女孩亲吻，感受已逝之人的智慧……那夏末空气中特有的气息和画面，是每一个人的童年。