{"product_id":"best-of","title":"The Best of Roald Dahl","description":"\u003cb\u003eIncludes the story \"The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar\" now an ACADEMY AWARD®-winning short film from Wes Anderson on Netflix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection of the best short stories from a writer with \"an ingenious imagination, a fascination with odd and ordinary detail, and a lust for its thorough exploitation\" \u003ci\u003e(The New York Times Book Review). \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf Stephen King could write with murderous concision, he might have come up with \"The Landlady,\" the story of a boarding house with an oddly talented proprietress and a small but permanent clientele. If Clive Barker had a sense of humor, he might have written \"Pig,\" a brutally funny look at cooks and vegetarianism. And a more bloodthirsty Jorge Luis Borges might have imagined the fanatical little gambler in \"Man From the South,\" who does his betting with a hammer, nails, and a butcher knife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut all these stories in this volume were written by Roald Dahl, whose genius for the horrific and grotesque is unparalleled and entirely his own.","brand":"Roald Dahl","offers":[{"title":"Pre-Loved - Visible Wear \u0026 Tear - Paperback","offer_id":51986055463229,"sku":null,"price":3.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/BNCImageAPI_496012ca-52ba-4a81-8680-50d86288fcac.jpg?v=1784137235","url":"https:\/\/thebookarchive.ca\/products\/best-of","provider":"The Book Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}