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My Uncle Oswald
My Uncle Oswald
Author: Roald Dahl
Behold Uncle Oswald, Michelangelo of seduction. He makes Casanova look like Winnie the Pooh. He stumbles--circa 1919--upon the world's most powerful aphrodisiac: powdered Sudanese Blister Beetle. It makes Spanish Fly look like Ovaltine. When he also learns how to freeze sperm he comes up with the greatest idea of all time: to use the delecta...  more »
ISBN: 50320
Pages: 201
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Book Type: Paperback
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The nameless narrator has revealed snippets of the lovable, lascivious Uncle Oswald's life in other collections, but this is the only novel--brief though it is--dedicated solely to the diaries of "the greatest fornicator of all time." Inspired by stories of the aphrodisiac powers of the Sudanese blister beetle, the palpable seductiveness of the lovely Yasmin Howcomely, and the scientific know-how of Professor A. R. Woresley, Uncle Oswald anticipates the concept of the Nobel sperm bank by some 40 years, flimflamming crowned heads, great artists, and eccentric geniuses into making "donations." The life of a commercial sperm broker has a few surprises even for a sophisticated bon vivant, and Dahl manages his signature sting-in-the-tail ending even in one of his lightest comic works.
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Funny book. Not a children's book like most of Dahl's books.
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I absolutely loved Roald Dahl when I was reading his children's books to my daughter years ago. This book is fairly funny, but I don't think it's on a par with other works I've read by him.
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Roald Dahl goes adult with this very racy, wry, ridiculous comedy of a money-making scheme that is so over the top only Dahl could be irreverent enough to write it.


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