Skin and Other Stories
by Roald Dahl
Taste attributes: comedyhorrormysterydramafastrealisticlinearemotive & stirringsolving the riddle/not as it seemstroubled leadsfool triumphant
Boxlist takeA stirring comic novel, balanced on most other counts. Best if you like stories that hit hard.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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3.3 / 5
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About This Book
Who could imagine that a woman would kill her husband with a frozen leg of lamb--and then feed it to the police investigating the murder? Or that a greedy group of art dealers would stop at nothing to separate a poor man form a valuable picture--that's tattooed on his back?
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- Author
- Roald Dahl
- Published
- 2000
- Pages
- 213
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- Open Library
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