Don't Look Now and Other Stories (Penguin Decades) - Softcover

Du Maurier, Daphne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141191139 ISBN 13: 9780141191133

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2010

Synopsis

The 1970s was a decade of anger and discontent. Britain endured power cuts and strikes. America pulled out of Vietnam and saw its President resign from office. Feminism and face lifts vied for women's hearts (and minds). And prog rock, punk and disco weren't just music but for some were ways of life.

Daphne du Maurier's Don't Look Now was published in 1971 and became a haunting film in 1973. It describes a young couple who travel to Venice to try and escape the pain of their daughter's death. Instead of laying their ghosts to rest, however, they find themselves caught up in a series of increasingly strange and violent events, in a brilliant meditation on loss, fear and fate.

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Review:

Don't Look Now is a strange and intimate masterpiece: a perfect distillation of the confusion and desire that attend grief, which, as the story progresses, adventures forward through the winding streets of Venice with the logic of nightmare (Ethan Rutherford NPR Books)

One of the most shocking plot twists in all of literature. It hits you like a freight train (Gillian Flynn)

Don't Look Now is a strange and intimate masterpiece: a perfect distillation of the confusion and desire that attend grief, which, as the story progresses, adventures forward through the winding streets of Venice with the logic of nightmare

One of the most shocking plot twists in all of literature. It hits you like a freight train

Book Description:

Daphne Du Maurier's Don't Look Now and Other Stories showcases her unique blend of empathy and spine-tingling suspense. This is Virago's first publication of this classic book, now available in our beautiful hardback designer series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0141191139
• ISBN 13: 9780141191133
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288