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Anyone who ever wished as a child to meet Willy Wonka or hang out with the BFG will be fascinated to learn in this engrossing, authorized biography of the late Roald Dahl that his own life was far, far more strange than even his fiction.
Twenty years after his death, Roald Dahl's bestselling stories continue to inspire and entertain children around the globe. But the man behind the stories remains an enigma. Despite his astonishing life as a Norwegian growing up in Wales, whose father died when he was just five, and as an ace fighter pilot, British intelligence agent, and husband for a while to one of Hollywood's top stars, Dahl nonetheless persistently embroidered the truth about himself, rewrote history, ignored reality, and defended his deep vulnerabilities with outlandish and wilfully provocative remarks. Facts bored him.
As his authorized biographer, Donald Sturrock, a wonderful writer and careful researcher, has drawn on Dahl's many previously unexamined files and a vast body of unpublished letters for this nuanced and engrossing narrative of the storyteller's long, adventurous life. PROLOGUE : Lunch with Igor Stravinsky
ONE : The Outsider
TWO : Shutting Out the Sun
THREE : Boy
FOUR : Foul Things and Horrid People
FIVE : Distant Faraway Lands
SIX : A Monumental Bash on the Head
SEVEN : David and Goliath
EIGHT : Alive but Earthbound
NINE : A Sort of Fairy Story
TEN : Secrets and Lies
ELEVEN : The Scholar-Gypsy
TWELVE : The Poacher
THIRTEEN : The Master of the Macabre
FOURTEEN : A Tornado of Troubles
FIFTEEN : Breaking Point
SIXTEEN : Indomitable
SEVENTEEN : The Gentle Warmth of Love
EIGHTEEN : Explosions Are Exciting
NINETEEN : The Wizard and the Wonderman
TWENTY : No Point in Struggling
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX.
Twenty years after his death, Roald Dahl's bestselling stories continue to inspire and entertain children around the globe. But the man behind the stories remains an enigma. Despite his astonishing life as a Norwegian growing up in Wales, whose father died when he was just five, and as an ace fighter pilot, British intelligence agent, and husband for a while to one of Hollywood's top stars, Dahl nonetheless persistently embroidered the truth about himself, rewrote history, ignored reality, and defended his deep vulnerabilities with outlandish and wilfully provocative remarks. Facts bored him.
As his authorized biographer, Donald Sturrock, a wonderful writer and careful researcher, has drawn on Dahl's many previously unexamined files and a vast body of unpublished letters for this nuanced and engrossing narrative of the storyteller's long, adventurous life. PROLOGUE : Lunch with Igor Stravinsky
ONE : The Outsider
TWO : Shutting Out the Sun
THREE : Boy
FOUR : Foul Things and Horrid People
FIVE : Distant Faraway Lands
SIX : A Monumental Bash on the Head
SEVEN : David and Goliath
EIGHT : Alive but Earthbound
NINE : A Sort of Fairy Story
TEN : Secrets and Lies
ELEVEN : The Scholar-Gypsy
TWELVE : The Poacher
THIRTEEN : The Master of the Macabre
FOURTEEN : A Tornado of Troubles
FIFTEEN : Breaking Point
SIXTEEN : Indomitable
SEVENTEEN : The Gentle Warmth of Love
EIGHTEEN : Explosions Are Exciting
NINETEEN : The Wizard and the Wonderman
TWENTY : No Point in Struggling
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX.