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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Don't Look Now: Selected Stories of Daphne Du Maurier (New York Review Books Classics) List Price: $15.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.85 You Save: $5.10 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 823.912 EAN: 9781590172889 ISBN: 1590172884 Label: NYRB Classics Manufacturer: NYRB Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: October 28, 2008 Publisher: NYRB Classics Release Date: October 28, 2008 Studio: NYRB Classics Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 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. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Gemlike FrissonBest known for "Rebecca," du Maurier's short stories elevate a tired genre into something truly literary. The premises for such yarns as "The Birds" and "Don't Look Now" (both available here) are compelling enough to have attracted Hitchcock (who played loose with her story) and Nicholas Roeg (who didn't). Her plotting is precise, her characters believable, her style that of an acerbic Edith Wharton. It is so very good to have these tales of terror assembled between two covers. Rating: - Short stories by a masterDaphne Du Maurier is a talented writer of some well-loved suspense stories. I'm not all the way through this book yet, but it is trademark Du Maurier and fans should love this book. 
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