Kiss Kiss is a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl, first published in 1960 by Alfred A. Knopf. Several of the constituent stories had been previously published elsewhere.
Contents
It contains the following short stories:
- "The Landlady" (first appeared in The New Yorker magazine, November 28, 1959)
- "William and Mary"
- "The Way Up to Heaven" (first appeared in The New Yorker magazine, February 27, 1954 Zoe Chace of NPR told interviewer Cara Philbin her reactions during reading the collection as a child: "Kiss Kiss is for grown-ups...It was actually the marriages that I remember feeling the worst about...Reading Kiss Kiss is one of the first times I can remember a real-life truth staring back at me from a book. I hadn't yet thought about the nasty tricks adults play on each other just to hurt each other. Particularly, married adults who aren't in love and who might know the other's weakness best. My imagination matured."
See also
- Switch Bitch (1974) collection of short stories
- Tales of the Unexpected (book)