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Someone Like You

Roald Dahl Dom Joly

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English
Penguin
03 May 2010
First time in Penguin Modern Classics for this collection of stories for adults, with a new foreword by Dom Joly

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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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   203g
ISBN:   9780141189642
ISBN 10:   0141189649
Series:   Penguin Modern Classics
Pages:   272
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Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

With the publication of James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the 1960s, Roald Dahl became the most successful children's author in the world. Nearly twenty years after his death in 1990, a fresh generation of children seek out his work with instinctive fanaticism. His creations endure -- through Hollywood movies, theatre adaptations and musical works, but still most potently through the pure magic of his writing upon the page. Dom Joly shot to fame with his anarchic comedy TV series Trigger Happy. He has since published a spoof autobiography, Look at Me, Letters to my Golf Club (2007) and has a regular column in the Independent.

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