Includes the story “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” now an ACADEMY AWARD(R)-winning short film from Wes Anderson on Netflix
A collection of the best short stories from a writer with “an ingenious imagination, a fascination with odd and ordinary detail, and a lust for its thorough exploitation” (The New York Times Book Review).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.
Author: Roald Dahl
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/14/1990
Pages: 528
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.30w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9780679729914
Language: English
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