Someone Like You - Hardcover

Dahl, Roald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394446151 ISBN 13: 9780394446158

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1953

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A collection of short stories of imagination and wit covering a wide variety of subjects

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Review:

The absolute master of the twist in the tale (Observer)

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'Fantastic as Grimm, heartless as Saki' Guardian

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.

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