Someone Like You

Resumen del libro

In "Someone Like You", Roald Dahl's first collection of his world famous dark and sinister adult stories, a wife serves a dish that baffles the police; a harmless bet suddenly becomes anything but; a curious machine reveals a horrifying truth about plants; and, a man lies awake waiting to be bitten by the venomous snake asleep on his stomach. Through vendettas and desperate quests, bitter memories and sordid fantasies, Roald Dahl's stories portray the strange and unexpected, sending a shiver down the spine. Stories include: "Taste", "Lamb to the Slaughter", "Man from the South", "The Soldier", "My Lady Love", "My Dove", "Dip in the Pool", "Galloping Foxley", "Skin", "Poison", "The Wish", "Neck", "The Sound Machine", "Nunc Dimittis", "The Great Automatic Grammatizator", and "Claud's Dog".

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Roald Dahl (1916-1990) es un autor justamente famoso por su extraordinario ingenio, su destreza narrativa, su dominio del humor negro y su inagotable capacidad de sorpresa, que llevó a Hitchcock a adaptar para la televisión muchos de sus relatos. En Anagrama se han publicado la novela "Mi tío Oswald" y los libros de cuentos "El gran cambiazo" (Gran Premio del Humor Negro), "Historias extraordinarias", "Relatos de lo inesperado" y "Dos fábulas". En otra faceta, Roald Dahl goza de una extraordinaria popularidad como autor de libros para niños.x{0026}lt;/p