Boy: Tales of Childhood - Softcover

Dahl, Roald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140089179 ISBN 13: 9780140089172

Publisher: Penguin, 1986

Synopsis

'Throughout my young days at school and just afterwards a number of things happened to me that I have never forgotten ....'

Boy is a funny, insightful and at times grotesque glimpse into the early life of Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors. We discover his experiences of the English public school system, the idyllic paradise of summer holidays in Norway, the pleasures (and pains) of the sweetshop, and how it is that he avoided being a Boazer.

This is the unadulterated childhood - sad and funny, macabre and delightful - that inspired our most-loved children's writer.

About this title

Review:

A shimmering fabric of his yesterdays, the magic and the hurt (Observer)

Brilliantly coloured, sometimes grotesque and sometimes magical (Sunday Times)

As frightening and funny as his fiction (New York Times Book Review)

Book Description:

Roald Dahl's account of his childhood is now reissued in our beautiful hardback format, with - for the first time - Quentin Blake's stunning illustrations

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0140089179
• ISBN 13: 9780140089172
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176