Boy: Tales of Childhood

Boy: Tales of Childhood

by RoaldDahl (Author)

Synopsis

'Throughout my young days at school and just afterwards a number of things happened to me that I have never forgotten ...' Boy is a funny, insightful and at times grotesque glimpse into the early life of Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors. We discover his experiences of the English public school system, the idyllic paradise of summer holidays in Norway, the pleasures (and pains) of the sweetshop, and how it is that he avoided being a Boazer. This is the unadulterated childhood - sad and funny, macabre and delightful - that inspired our most-loved children's writer.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
Edition: Reissue
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 30 Jan 2003

ISBN 10: 0140089179
ISBN 13: 9780140089172

Author Bio
Sitting in a hut at the bottom of his garden, surrounded by odd bits and pieces such as a suitcase (used as a footrest), his own hipbone (which he'd had replaced) and a heavy ball of metal foil (made from years' worth of chocolate wrappers), Roald Dahl wrote some of the world's best-loved stories including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Twits, The Witches, The BFG, Fantastic Mr Fox, James and the Giant Peach and lots more.