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Someone Like You
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Roald Dahl, Dom Joly (Introduction by)
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Price includes NZ wide delivery! Ships from UK supplier | Rating: | | | Format: | Paperback, 272 pages | | Published In: | United Kingdom, 07 December 2009 |
These eighteen tales of the macabre show Dahl's dark brilliance as a short-story writer. They are wicked (as an old man attracts the attentions of those more interested in his skin than his wellbeing), shocking (as distasteful bets are made - a daughter's hand on the identity of a glass of claret, a finger risked for a Cadillac) and blackly humorous (as a cuckolded husband receives a chance to take his revenge out on his wife's neck). "Someone Like You" is as devilishly ingenious and suspenseful as writing gets. |
About the AuthorWith the publication of James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the 1960s, Roald Dahl became the most successful children's author in the world. Nearly twenty years after his death in 1990, a fresh generation of children seek out his work with instinctive fanaticism. His creations endure -- through Hollywood movies, theatre adaptations and musical works, but still most potently through the pure magic of his writing upon the page. Dom Joly shot to fame with his anarchic comedy TV series Trigger Happy. He has since published a spoof autobiography, Look at Me, Letters to my Golf Club (2007) and has a regular column in the Independent.
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics | | ISBN: | 0141189649 |
| EAN: | 9780141189642 | | Dimensions: | 19.0 x 12.0 x 1.0 centimeters (0.20 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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