The Best of Roald Dahl

Name: The Best of Roald Dahl
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Roald Dahl
ISBN: 9780679729914

Roald Dahl

14/07/1990
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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1 unité(s) de cet article soldée(s) à partir du 8 janvier 2020 8h (uniquement sur les unités vendues et expédiées par Amazon) 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