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The Best of Roald Dahl
Contributor(s): Dahl, Roald (Author)

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 ISBN: 0679729917     ISBN-13: 9780679729914
Publisher: Vintage
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 1990
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Annotation: This collection brings together Dahl's finest work, illustrating his genius for the horrific and grotesque which is unparalleled.
"Dahl has the mastery of plot and characters possessed by great writers of the past, along with a wildness and wryness of his own. One of his trademarks is writing beautifully about the ugly, even the horrible."--"Los Angeles Times
"An ingenious imagination, a fascination with odd and ordinary detail, and a lust for its thorough exploitation are the...strengths of Dahl's storytelling."--"New York Times Book Review
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single Author)
- Fiction | Fantasy - Humorous
- Fiction | Horror - General
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 89040734
Physical Information: 0.91" H x 5.3" W x 8.02" L (0.84 lbs) 528 pages
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If Stephen King could write with murderous concision, he might have come up with The Landlady, the story of a boarding house with an oddly talented proprietress and a small but permanent clientele. If Clive Barker had a sense of humor, he might have written Pig, a brutally funny look at cooks and vegetarianism. And a more bloodthirsty Jorge Luis Borges might have imagined the fanatical little gambler in Man From the South, who does his betting with a hammer, nails, and a butcher knife.

But all these stories in this volume were written by Roald Dahl, whose genius for the horrific and grotesque is unparalleled and entirely his own.

Dahl has the mastery of plot and characters possessed by great writers of the past, along with a wildness and wryness of his own. One of his trademarks is writing beautifully about the ugly, even the horrible.--Los Angeles Times

An ingenious imagination, a fascination with odd and ordinary detail, and a lust for its thorough exploitation are the...strengths of Dahl's storytelling.--New York Times Book Review
 
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