Someone Like You
Someone Like You by Roald Dahl is a collection of short stories published by Penguin Books Limited in 2010. This edition features 272 pages of dark and witty tales crafted for adult audiences, showcasing Dahl’s mastery in storytelling. The stories delve into themes of intrigue and suspense, presenting a range of macabre scenarios that highlight the author’s unique narrative style.
Readers will encounter eighteen tales that blend wickedness, shock, and black humor, illustrating Dahl’s ability to engage with complex human emotions and moral dilemmas. The narratives explore various situations, from the unsettling dynamics of aging to the absurdity of human behavior, all while maintaining a sense of dark ingenuity. This collection offers a glimpse into Dahl’s versatility as a writer, making it a notable addition to the realm of short fiction.
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In addition to his celebrated childrens’ books such as James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl wrote short fiction for adult audiences, and the tales collected in Someone Like You are dark, witty morsels of intrigue and suspense from a master storyteller. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is published with a 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.
With the publication of James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the 1960s, Roald Dahl (1916-90) became the most successful children’s author in the world, Roald Dahl. 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.
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