Buy this book on-line STURROCK, DONALD: : Storyteller: The Life of Roald DahlLONDON.HarperPress/HarperCollinsPublishers,2010. ISBN 9780007254767.
UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] NFINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£25) to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,subject's contemporary b/w portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with glossy embossed b/w+red letters to front,ewd spine with white letters,rear panel with Quentin Blake black lettered quote/ critique of book; with some minimal shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – but no nicks,tears or splits present.Top +fore-edges though lightly toned,bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corners – near pristine,appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher’s bright,clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate/clean plain red endpapers.UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-xvpp+2-655pp [paginated] includes separate contents+illus listst/tables,a prologue,20 chapters,profusely illustrated with 24pp of contemporary b/w autobiographical photographs in 3 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp144/5,pp304/5 and pp496/7 respectively,acknowledgements, notes,a bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,Dahl epigram.
The authorised biography of one of the greatest storytellers of all time, written with complete access to the archives stored in the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre.In this award-winning biography, Donald Sturrock reveals many many hidden aspects of Roald Dahl's life; his terrifying experiences as a fighter pilot; the anguish caused by the death of his seven-year-old daughter; his work for military intelligence at the end of the war and more.
Written with exclusive access to his private papers and with reference to hundreds of newly-discovered letters, `Storyteller' reveals Roald Dahl as we've never seen him before.
Donald Sturrock worked at the BBC for ten years as a writer,producer and director. Since his departure from the BBC in 1992, he has written and directed a number of television programmes,including a film about Roald Dahl for the BBC.
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