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Literature & Fiction

Don't Look Now

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Don't Look Now

An NYRB Original

Daphne du Maurier wrote some of the most compelling and creepy novels of the twentieth century. In books like Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, and Jamaica Inn she transformed the small dramas of everyday lifeâ€”love, grief, jealousyâ€”into the stuff of nightmares. Less known, though no less powerful, are her short stories, in which she gave free rein to her imagination in narratives of unflagging suspense.

Patrick McGrathâ€™s revelatory new selection of du Maurierâ€™s stories shows her at her most chilling and most psychologically astute: a dead child reappears in the alleyways of Venice; routine eye surgery reveals the beast within to a meek housewife; nature revolts against manâ€™s abuse by turning a benign species into an annihilating force; a dalliance with a beautiful stranger offers something more dangerous than a broken heart. McGrath draws on the whole of du Maurierâ€™s long career and includes surprising discoveries together with famous stories like â€œThe Birds.â€ Donâ€™t Look Now is a perfect introduction to a peerless storyteller.
Country USA
Manufacturer Doubleday
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780385087339
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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