Switch Bitch
by Roald Dahl
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Here at last—more than twenty years after Someone Like You, almost fifteen years since Kiss, Kiss—is a new collection of (adult) stories by the Supreme Master of Nastiness (except, of course, when he’s writing about Charlie—of the Chocolate Factory and the Great Glass Elecator—and James—of the Giant Peach).
Stand by to Encounter:
Uncle Oswald, who likes scorpions and seducint ladies on top of pyramids (magnificent views, and you can always spot the approach of the Opposition), but who shouldn’t have stayed the night with a very new friend he met by chance in the Sinai desert…
Vic, the suburban Jupiter who works out a completely foolproof system for the great switcher, and foolishly takes the shape and the place of luscious Samantha’s husband, Jerry…
Anna, who doesn’t realise that you should never, need all up a long-lost beau if he’s a doctor and lives in Dallas…
irrepressible Uncle Oswald again, whose chemist friend has invented a (totally) irresistible perfume...
In short: four cautionary Mother Goosepimple tales for grown-ups, each of them laced with elegant fun and horrible surprises!
--front flap
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flashback, olfaction, chemists, funding, research, sexology, boxing, sexual intercourse, cardiovascular disease, breasts, safety pins, English Short stories, Fiction, Literature, Short Stories, rape by deception, hobbyists, leprosy, short story, gynecology, martinis, menopause, English literature, Fiction, short stories (single author), English fiction, SexPeople
Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, Henri Biotte, Pierre Lacaille, Simone, Marcel Brossolet, Elvira Ponsomby, Daughters of the American Revolution, Abdul Aziz, Jerry Rainbow, Samantha Rainbow, Vic Hammond, Mary Hammond, Anna Cooper, Ed, Conrad KreugerShowing 7 featured editions. View all 24 editions?
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Kuschelmuschel: Vier erotische Überraschungen
2001-02, Rowohlt Tb.
Paperback
in German
- 26 Auflage
3499142007 9783499142000
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Switch Bitch
1987-05, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- First Ballantine Books Edition, Fourth Printing
0345338359 9780345338358
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Kuschelmuschel: Vier erotische überraschungen
1975 05, Rowohlt
Hardcover
in German
3498012223 9783498012229
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Switch Bitch
1974-10, Alfred A. Knopf, [distributed by Random House]
Hardcover
in English
- 1st ed.
0394494733 9780394494739
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Four tales of seduction and suspense from the grand master of the short story...
Topping and tailing this collection are two stories featuring Roald Dahl's notorious hedonist Oswald Hendryks Cornelius (or Uncle Oswald) whose exploits are frequently as extraordinary as they are scandalous. The collection was first published in 1974 although some of the stories date from several years before - Uncle Oswald's first appearance was in The Visitor, written in 1964. The other two black comedies in Switch Bitch also explore a darker side of desire and pleasure.
The four stories included are:
Visitor
Great Switcheroo
Last Act
Bitch
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Contained in:
Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl: Volume I
Kiss, Kiss / Switch Bitch / My Uncle Oswald
Kiss, Kiss / Over to You / Switch Bitch / Someone Like You / Four Tales of the Unexpected / My Uncle Oswald
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