One More for the Road: A New Story Collection

289 pp. "America has no finer teller of tales than Ray Bradbury. Now the master treats us to another round -- eighteen brand-new stories and seven previously published but never before collected -- a rich elixir distilled from the pungent fruit of experience and imagination, expertly prepared by a superior mixologist.This glass overflows with a heady brew: a house where time has no boundaries; the comforts of arguments eternal; the ghosts of dear friends, errant sons and lost fathers; the addictive terror of a pre-dawn phone call. It is a superb refreshment served with wit, heart, and flair by the incomparable Bradbury. And every satisfying swallow brings new surprises and revelations." Includes: First Day; Heart Transplant; Quid Pro Quo; After the Ball; In Memoriam; Tete-a-Tete; The Dragon Danced at Midnight; The Nineteenth; Beasts; Autumn Afternoon; Where All Is Emptiness There Is No Room to Move; One-Woman Show; The Laurel and Hardy Alpha Centauri Farewell Tour; Leftovers; One More for the Road; Tangerine; With Smiles as Wide as Summer; Time Intervening; The Enemy in the Wheat; Fore!; My Son, Max; The F. Scott / Tolstoy / Ahab Accumulator; Well, What Do You Have to Say for Yourself?; Diane de Foret; The Cricket on the Hearth; Afterword: Metaphors, the Breakfast of Champions.