Name: the scapegoat
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Author: Daphne Du Maurier
ISBN: 9780812217254

Type

Physical Book

Author

Daphne Du Maurier

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3x13.7x2.3 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN

081221725X

ISBN13

9780812217254

Synopsis "the scapegoat"

Someone jolted my elbow as I drank and said, 'Je vous demande pardon, ' and as I moved to give him space he turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realized, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well. I was looking at myself. Two men--one English, the other French--meet by chance in a provincial railway station and are astounded that they are so much alike that they could easily pass for each other. Over the course of a long evening, they talk and drink. It is not until he awakes the next day that John, the Englishman, realizes that he may have spoken too much. His French companion is gone, having stolen his identity. For his part, John has no choice but to take the Frenchman's place--as master of a chateau, director of a failing business, head of a large and embittered family, and keeper of too many secrets. Loaded with suspense and crackling wit, The Scapegoat tells the double story of the attempts by John, the imposter, to escape detection by the family, servants, and several mistresses of his alter ego, and of his constant and frustrating efforts to unravel the mystery of the enigmatic past that dominates the existence of all who live in the chateau. Hailed by the New York Times as a masterpiece of artfully compulsive storytelling, The Scapegoat brings us Daphne du Maurier at the very top of her form.

Daphne Du Maurier

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Nació en Londres en 1907, hija del actor y empresario Gerald du Maurier y nieta del autor e ilustrador George du Maurier. Educada en familia y más tarde en París, empezó escribiendo cuentos y artículos en 1928 y en 1931 publicó su primera novela, Espíritu de amor. El éxito de Rebeca (1938), su tercera novela, enseguida adaptada al cine por Alfred Hitchcock, le dio fama mundial, y a partir de entonces se convertiría en una de las novelistas más populares del siglo XX. Entre sus otras obras, muchas de ellas llevadas también al cine, cabe mencionar La posada Jamaica (1937; Rara Avis núm. 37), El río del Francés (1941; Rara Avis núm. 42), Monte Bravo (1943), Los parásitos (1949), Mi prima Rachel (1951; Rara Avis núm. 32), Los pájaros (relato incluido en la colección The Apple Tree, 1952), Mary Anne (1954), El chivo expiatorio (1957; Rara avis núm. 49) y La Casa de la Orilla (1969). También escribió teatro y biografías. Vivió la mayor parte de su vida en Cornualles, donde se ambientan muchas de sus novelas. Allí murió en 1989.

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