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Someone Like You

Roald Dahl's Short Story Collections seriesNext:

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There's the gambler who collects little fingers from losers...there's the lady who murders her husband with a frozen leg of lamb...not to mention the man who has made a machine that can hear grass scream...Roald Dahl's particular brand of bizarre, alarming and disturbing story-telling has already attracted a huge following which can only be more disturbed, alarmed and - thankfully - amused by 'Someone Like You'.

Themes
childhood
Audience
adultchildrens
Length
medium · 270 pages

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