Roald Dahl: Wales of the Unexpected - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783169400 ISBN 13: 9781783169405

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2016

Synopsis

Roald Dahl: Wales of the Unexpected explores the complex ways in which Roald Dahl engages with Wales—the country of his birth and early life—throughout his work. The contributors reveal how both Dahl’s books for children and his fiction for adults can illuminatingly be read in terms of their author’s Anglo-Welsh identity. As a result, a new picture of Dahl emerges. Relocated through a Welsh lens, ‘the world’s number one storyteller’ appears in a convincing new light.
 

About this title

About the Author:

Damian Walford-Davies is professor of English and Head of the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University.
 

Review:

“Through the powerfully formative lens of Wales, the essays in this highly original and imaginative collection demonstrate the extent to which Dahl’s later development, as both writer and person, was shaped by his Welsh upbringing.”
  (David Rudd, University of Roehampton)

“An intriguing and readable collection of essays that shines remarkable light into Roald Dahl’s complex and unexpected Welsh hinterland.” (Donald Sturrock, Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1783169400
• ISBN 13: 9781783169405
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Davies Damian Walford