Paperback, 234 pages
English language
Published May 7, 2011 by Penguin Books.
Seven tales of the bizarre and unexpected told by the grand master of the short story; Roald Dahl.
Enter a brilliant, sinister and wholly unpredictable world. Here you will find the suggestion of other-worldly goings on in a dark story about a swan and a boy, the surprising tale of a wealthy young wastrel who suddenly develops a remarkable new ability, and meet the hitchhiker whose light-fingers save the day.
Roald Dahl writes in such a simple and elegant way that it's a pleasure to read out loud. It's all very forthright and factual sounding. This book includes two non-fiction pieces, or possibly three if you include the one about how he became a writer (in which he says the other two were his only non-fiction pieces).
I read these stories aloud to Colleen.
