An edition of Switch Bitch (1974)

Switch Bitch

1st ed.
  • 3.7 (3 ratings) ·
  • 55 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 10 Have read

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today

  • 3.7 (3 ratings) ·
  • 55 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 10 Have read

Buy this book

Last edited by MARC Bot
September 6, 2024 | History
An edition of Switch Bitch (1974)

Switch Bitch

1st ed.
  • 3.7 (3 ratings) ·
  • 55 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 10 Have read

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

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
210

Buy this book

Previews available in: English Spanish German French

Edition Availability
Cover of: Switch Bitch
Switch Bitch
2009, Penguin Books
Paperback in English - printing (57)
Cover of: El Gran Cambiazo
El Gran Cambiazo
May 2006, Anagrama
Paperback in Spanish
Cover of: Kuschelmuschel
Kuschelmuschel: Vier erotische Überraschungen
2001-02, Rowohlt Tb.
Paperback in German - 26 Auflage
Cover of: Switch Bitch
Switch Bitch
1987-05, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - First Ballantine Books Edition, Fourth Printing
Cover of: La grande entourloupe
La grande entourloupe
1983, Gallimard
Mass Market Paperback in French
Cover of: Kuschelmuschel
Kuschelmuschel: Vier erotische überraschungen
1975 05, Rowohlt
Hardcover in German
Cover of: Switch Bitch
Switch Bitch
1974-10, Alfred A. Knopf, [distributed by Random House]
Hardcover in English - 1st ed.

Add another edition?

Book Details


Table of Contents

The visitor --
The great switcheroo --
The last act --
Bitch.

Edition Notes

A novel.

Published in
New York, USA
Copyright Date
1974

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.9/14
Library of Congress
PZ3.D1373 Sw3, PR6054.A35 Sw3

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
210 p.
Number of pages
210

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5047198M
Internet Archive
switchbitch00dahl_0
ISBN 10
0394494733
ISBN 13
9780394494739
LCCN
74007731
OCLC/WorldCat
558038019, 922679
Hathi Trust
000396222
Google
3h1kAAAAMAAJ
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0394494733
Library Thing
54453
Goodreads
49074431

Work Description

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

(source)



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

Links outside Open Library

Community Reviews (1)

Feedback?
Genres 1 Anthology 100% Mood 1 Strange 50% Ominous 50%

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON
September 6, 2024 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
November 14, 2022 Edited by Lisa Edited without comment.
September 9, 2022 Edited by Lisa Edited without comment.
September 9, 2022 Edited by Lisa Edited without comment.
October 15, 2009 Created by WorkBot add works page