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The novel is set in 1954, when the narrator is a writer working at a Hollywood motion picture studio. The setting and themes of the novel are inspired by Bradbury's experiences working on several films, including
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portrait of Bradbury, who as a teenager waited outside Hollywood studios for glimpses of movie stars.
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A Graveyard for Lunatics : Another tale of two cities.
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A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another tale of two cities
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Ray Bradbury
Mystery
Alfred A. Knopf
Hardback
Paperback
ISBN
0-394-57877-5
OCLC
21117115
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
Death Is a Lonely Business
Let's All Kill Constance
mystery
Ray Bradbury
narrator
It Came from Outer Space
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Paramount Studios
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
stop motion
director
Ray Harryhausen
Fritz Lang
James Wong Howe
autobiographical
Death Is a Lonely Business
Let's All Kill Constance
Brown, Charles N.

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