Tim Hamilton adapts Ray Bradbury's novel into illustrated form, with the story following Guy Montag, a fireman whose job is to burn books in a future America where reading is outlawed and television walls fill every living room. After meeting Clarisse, a teenage neighbour who asks him whether he is happy, Montag begins hiding books and questioning his wife Mildred's numbed life. His captain Beatty, who knows literature well, argues for the world as it is. Hamilton's grey-toned, dense artwork shows the burning and the chase.
This version works for readers who know the novel and want to see it drawn, and for newcomers, including students, who find prose dystopias slower. The book makes its point about censorship and distraction through images, and Bradbury's own introduction frames it.
Balanced in tone; an easy read.
Best for readers like The Story Seeker. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
