Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl
by Sturrock, Donald
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0007881053
- ISBN 13
- 9780007881055
- Seller
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Synopsis
DONALD STURROCK is an award-winning TV film producer and a librettist who has been the artistic director of the Roald Dahl Foundation since 1992. He grew up in England and South America, attended Oxford University, and joined BBC Television's Music and Arts Department in 1983. In 1995 Sturrock directed an acclaimed BBC television version of his own adaptation of Roald Dahl's Little Red Riding Hood with Danny DeVito, Ian Holm, and Julie Walters. In 1998, at the Los Angeles Opera, Sturrock also directed the world premiere of Fantastic Mr. Fox , an opera based on Dahl's book, adapted by Sturrock, and with designs by Gerald Scarfe. His children's opera Keepers of the Night premiered in Los Angeles in 2007. Storyteller is his first book. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Alexander's Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 079046
- Title
- Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl
- Author
- Sturrock, Donald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0007881053
- ISBN 13
- 9780007881055
- Publisher
- HarperPress
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 655
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¼ - 9¼" tall
- Keywords
- Roald Dahl; Donald Sturrock; Children's Authors
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
- X weight
- 1080 g
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