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Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl, by Roald Dahl

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Brief Synopsis:

Seven stories that delight us with their mixture of the charming and the charmingly perverse.

Long Synopsis:

roald dahl's new book is a wonderful collection of stories, most of which were written in the late 1940s, originally published in various magazines and collections in the forties and fifties, and are gathered here together for the first time. Set in one English village and sharing a cast of characters, these stories--each bearing the inimitable, antic, slightly wicked Dahl touch--have the vivid effect of a novel, giving us the larger picture of this small world in the years just after World War II. And leave it to Dahl to find the most unusual, the eeriest, the funniest, and the most shocking details lurking inside this (or any) pastoral. There's the ratcatcher who looks--and acts--alarmingly like his quarry...the grand backfiring of the greatest pheasant poaching (a "sporting type of stealing") ever almost pulled off...the strange disappearance--and gruesome reappearance--of Ole Jimmy, the elderly, sweet-tempered, tipsy playground attendant...the comings and goings at the illegal greyhound racetrack where the dogs are far tamer than the bookies...the surprisingorigin of the expression "bull's eye" (and a lesson in assuring the sex of your cow's next calf)... Seven stories that delight us with their mixture of the charming and the charmingly perverse, and that remind us--as only a Roald Dahl story can--that the mystery of life isn't always as sweet as it seems.

Book Quality:

Excellent

Book Size:

183 Pages

ISBN-10:

0394582659

ISBN-13:

9780394582658

Publisher:

N/A

Date of Addition:

06/03/04

Copyright Date:

1989

Copyrighted By:

Roald Dahl

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Categories:

Animals, Literature and Fiction, Outdoors and Nature

Submitted By:

Michael Mello

Proofread By:

Noel Romey

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