"Storyteller is a real liability if you have anything resembling a
busy schedule. It hooks you from its opening sentence; that opening
sentence then segues into a wonderful opening paragraph; the
paragraph turns into a great first chapter and before you know it
you're up to your armpits in stories about spies and foxes and
movie stars and you don't want to tear yourself away. As engrossing
as only the best biographies can be." --Tom Shone, author of In the
Rooms and Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love the Summer
"A balanced and juicy treatment . . . running through Dahl's years
spying for the Brits and bedding a slew of Americans as well as the
tensions, setbacks, and depressive jags that gave his work its
texture." --New York magazine, "The Twenty; Our most anticipated
fiction and nonfiction of fall"
"A major literary biography....Storyteller is so packed with
intimate details, sharply intelligent commentary and surprising
revelations...that it should be read immediately by anyone
interested in Dahl, the ins and outs of modern publishing or the
art of biography. I can't sing its praises enough." --Michael
Dirda, The Washington Post
"A no-stone-unturned examination of the man who gave us Matilda and
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." -- TimeOut New York
"An exhaustive, yet exuberant portrait . . . Sturrock unravels the
Dahl myth." --Susannah Cahalan, New York Post
"At the end of Mr Sturrock's satisfying and sparky tale, the reader
has an overwhelming desire to rush off and read the first of Dahl's
books he can lay his hands on." --The Economist
"Diabolically readable! Donald Sturrock--a goodhearted Charlie with
the keys to the factory well in hand--makes lucky ticketholders of
us all, revealing from deep within this exotic, guarded, often
painful life the conjuring triumphs and dark tragedies of the 20th
century's most wonderfully wicked storyteller." --David Michaelis,
author of Schulz and Peanuts
"Donald Sturrock's Storyteller ... [gives] us a sprawling
entertainment packed with anecdote and incident.... an engaging
tale with satisfying episodes of glamour, intrigue, failure and
renewal." --William Georgiades, The Wall Street Journal
"Sturrock captures the spirit of the man, his need to charm and
entertain as well as his 'almost adolescent desire to annoy'.''
--Barbara Fisher, The Boston Globe
"Sturrock's superb biography . . . is a hugely readable portrait
that examines vividly and sympathetically the life and work of a
difficult, complex author who was adored by millions of children,
loathed by many adults, and was possibly a genius." --Graham Lord,
Daily Telegraph (UK)
"The person I met when I met Roald Dahl comes through vividly on
the pages of Storyteller. Dahl told me that he was generally
disappointed in what people wrote about him, but I believe he would
have appreciated Donald Sturrock's beautifully written book."
--Charlotte Chandler, author of I Know Where I'm Going
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