Boy
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Roald Dahl
Boy
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984.
First printing.
Dahl's natural talent for story-telling makes even his account of an English childhood into a gripping narrative.
We can trace some of the strands of his fiction to the tortures of a traditional British private school education of the time, where boys were routinely beaten.
His outrage went on to fuel a comic mistrust of all authority figures and a sympathy for children who rebel.