Skin and Other Stories
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Introduces teenagers to the adult short stories of Roald Dahl.
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Introduces teenagers to the adult short stories of Roald Dahl.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780613671224 (0613671228)
Publish date: January 14th 2002
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Pages no: 212
Edition language: English
This is a high quality collection of shorts, not aimed specifically at children. The stand-out entry is Lamb to the Slaughter, which is a wicked delight. I was surprised to find a precursor to the kids' novel Danny, Champion of the World here. That was the only one I was exposed to as a child. Shoul...
Roald Dahl had a TV SHOW!!!Obviously everyone knew way before I was born that Roald Dahl is a fantastic writer. I'm just catching up with his writing for adults, starting here.
Read this one aloud to my then-boyfriend, now-husband, driving through the Rockies.
I'm not a fan of the quiet literary novel. I like stories in which things happen. New, different, interesting things. Dahl is in my top five of short story writers along with Daphne DuMaurier who was also a Hitchcock fave, as well as three other people I'll have to think very carefully about. Gu...
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