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Title: Skin (A Roald Dahl Short Story)
Author: Roald Dahl
Narrator: Tamsin Greig
Format: Unabridged
Length: 44 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-13-12
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of "Skin", a short, sharp, frightening story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale. Read by the actress Tamsin Greig. In "Skin", Roald Dahl, one of the worlds favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a very unusual painting proves to be more valuable than anyone, especially its owner, could ever have predicted . . ."Skin" is taken from the short story collection Someone Like You, which includes seventeen other devious and shocking stories, featuring the wife who serves a dish that baffles the police; a curious machine that reveals the horrifying truth about plants; the man waiting to be bitten by the venomous snake asleep on his stomach; and others.
This story is also available as a Penguin ebook. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahls Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahls stories continue to make readers shiver today. Tamsin Greigs television work include: Episodes, White Heat, Friday Night Dinner, The Diary of Anne Frank, Love Soup, Green Wing, Black Books. Her film work includes: Tamara Drewe, and her theatre work includes: Jumpy, Much Ado about Nothing: RSC.
Members Reviews:
MOUNT VESUVIUS SPEAKS TO THE U.S. ALLIES
As with Malaparte's other book about WWII, Kaputt, this one is mesmerizingly appalling. Set almost entirely in Naples after the Allies landed, Malaparte weaves together commentary on the American national character with musings on the mid-century degradation of western civilization. He describes Neapolitans, both high and low, as a race unto its own -- a race of "paga-tholics," or "catho-gans." And the Italian landscape is itself an ever present character. Mount Vesuvius, the island of Capri, Monte Cassino, and the Via Appia. A must-read for devotees of WWII literature.
A book to read after you already know the history of Naples.
Historically interseting but I believe some of the memories of the author may certainly have been twisted by his politics and lifestyle. If you have a good ground in history you can wade through this and be informed, amused and disgusted. This was written just after the liberation of Naples and the people were desperate, doing desperate things. Mr. Malaparte has little compassion for the southern Italian and it shows. Like I said, interesting but disturbing.
A classic of world literature
a great and shocking book like his other masterpiece 'Kaputt" I shows us war from the inside. His has an unique viewpoint( having started out as an Italian Fascist) He has a view of the American soldier that we cannot find anywhere else. Stylistically he approaches poetry, even in translation.
Recommended for mature readers with a grasp of 20th century history.
Very tough but fantastic
Excellent. Some passages you will not be able to unread. But great litterature. Dark humour to alleviate the litany of unspeakable horrors depicted. A classic .
Savage war time Irony from Italy
Not your standard novel at all. A savagely ironic view of the liberation of Naples in 1943 by the Allies.
