Someone Like You (short story collection)
Someone Like You is a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl. It was published in 1953 by Alfred Knopf.Contents
- "Dip in the Pool"
- "Galloping Foxley"
- "Lamb to the Slaughter"
- "Man from the South"
- "Mr. Feasey"
- "Mr. Hoddy"
- "My Lady Love, My Dove"
- "Neck"
- "Nunc Dimittis"
- "Poison"
- "Rummins"
- "Skin"
- "Taste"
- "The Great Automatic Grammatizator"
- "The Ratcatcher"
- "The Soldier"
- "The Sound Machine"
- "The Wish"
Reception
called Someone Like You "certainly the most distinguished book of short stories of 1953... all superb". Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas praised the collection's "subtly devastating murder stories two biting science-fantasties, plus a few unclassifiable gems" and concluded the volume "belong on your shelves somewhere in the Beerbohm/Collier/Saki section".
Van Morrison's song Someone like you is named after this collection.Awards
