{"product_id":"the-best-of-roald-dahl-9780679729914","title":"The Best of Roald Dahl","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut all these stories in this volume were written by Roald Dahl, whose genius for the horrific and grotesque is unparalleled and entirely his own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Dahl has the mastery of plot and characters possessed by great writers of the past, along with a wildness and wryness of his own. One of his trademarks is writing beautifully about the ugly, even the horrible.\"--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An ingenious imagination, a fascination with odd and ordinary detail, and a lust for its thorough exploitation are the...strengths of Dahl's storytelling.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679729914\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.30w x 0.91d","brand":"Roald Dahl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36639885328540,"sku":"9780679729914","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_365933c3-31f7-4e0c-837d-62e6a5f27ee3.jpg?v=1603850832","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-best-of-roald-dahl-9780679729914","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}