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Boy

Published: 19 March 2012
ISBN: 9780241955307
Imprint: Michael Joseph
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
RRP: $26.99

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Boy

Tales of Childhood

Roald Dahl

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A beautiful new jacket treatment, part of Penguin's reissue programme of Dahl's adult titles

'An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. This is not an autobiography. I would never write a history of myself. On the other hand, 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 Britain's favourite storyteller and also speaks of an age which vanished with the coming of the Second World War.

Published: 19 March 2012
ISBN: 9780241955307
Imprint: Michael Joseph
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
RRP: $26.99

Categories:

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About the author

Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and many more brilliant stories.

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Praise for Boy

A shimmering fabric of his yesterdays, the magic and the hurt
Observer

Brilliantly coloured, sometimes grotesque and sometimes magical
Sunday Times

As frightening and funny as his fiction
New York Times Book Review