The Best of Roald Dahl by Roald Dahl

The Best of Roald Dahl : Paperback : Random House USA Inc : 9780679729914 : 0679729917 : 01 Jun 1991 : 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...... Mehr