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Don't Look Now: Selected Stories of Daphne Du Maurier

Name: Don't Look Now: Selected Stories of Daphne Du Maurier
Brand: New York Review of Books
SKU: 9781590172889
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Contributors:

Daphne Du Maurier, Patrick McGrath (Introduction by)

Publisher:

New York Review of Books

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Fiction

Book Subcategory:

Short Stories (single author), Horror, Psychological

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Release Date:

2008-10-28

ISBN 13:

9781590172889

Weight:

0.81 lbs

Size:

7.96 x 5.04 x 0.78 inches

Pages:

368

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Classic horror stories by one of masters of the form. Full of bone-chilling tales, this collection includes "The Birds," the basis for the Alfred Hitchcock film of the same title, and other creepy classics.

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 life--love, grief, jealousy--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 McGrath's revelatory new selection of du Maurier'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 man'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 Maurier's long career and includes surprising discoveries together with famous stories like "The Birds." Don't Look Now is a perfect introduction to a peerless storyteller.

About the Author

Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989)was the daughter of the legendary actor-manager Gerald du Maurier and granddaughter of George du Maurier, the author of the vastly successful late-Victorian novel Trilby and cartoonist for the magazine Punch. She grew up in London and Cornwall, where she would settle as an adult. Du Maurier published her first novel when she was twenty-three and would go on to write seventeen more, many of them best-sellers, including My Cousin Rachel, Jamaica Inn, and Rebecca, one of the most popular novels of the twentieth century. In addition to her fiction, du Maurier wrote several family biographies, a biography of Branwell Brontë, a study of Cornwall, two plays, and a good deal of journalism. She was married to Tommy "Boy" Browning and was the mother of three children.

Patrick McGrath is the author of two story collections and seven novels, including Port Mungo, Dr. Haggard's Disease, Spider, (which he also adapted for the screen), and most recently, The Wardrobe Mistress. Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution won Italy's Premio Flaiano Prize, and his 1996 novel, Asylum, was short-listed for both the Whitbread and the Guardianfiction prizes. McGrath is the co-editor of a collection of short fiction, The New Gothic. He lives in New York.

Don't Look Now: Selected Stories of Daphne Du Maurier

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