Over to You - Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying
by Roald Dahl
Taste attributes: wardramahistoricalunsavouryheavyrealisticlinearemotive & stirringhuman spirit/resilience/survivaltroubled leads
Boxlist takeExpect a realistic, serious war novel, dark rather than wholesome. Best if you like depth over escapism.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: dark · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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3.8 / 5
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About This Book
Over to You brings together 10 of Roald Dahl's earliest stories, many of them set during the Second World War and drawing on his own experiences as a fighter pilot. It includes his first paid piece of writing, the short story A Piece of Cake, which was originally published in 1942 in American magazine The Saturday Evening Post under the title Shot Down Over Libya.
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- Author
- Roald Dahl
- Published
- 1946
- Pages
- 160
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