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Rent Rebecca
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Format: Mass Market Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published: Aug 2002
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $8.99
Pages: 384
Synopsis
'Last Night I Dreamt
I Went To Manderley Again.'
So the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter remembered the chilling events that led her down the turning drive past ther beeches, white and naked, to the isolated gray stone manse on the windswept Cornish coast. With a husband she barely knew, the young bride arrived at this immense estate, only to be inexorably drawn into the life of the first Mrs. de Winter, the beautiful Rebecca, dead but never forgotten...her suite of rooms never touched, her clothes ready to be worn, her servant -- the sinister Mrs. Danvers -- still loyal. And as an eerie presentiment of evil tightened around her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter began her search for the real fate of Rebecca...for the secrets of Manderley.
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What an engrossing novel. I could not put this book down. Many nights, I awoke with my face in its pages, realizing that I had been reading up until the moment where I had fallen asleep. Every time I thought I might have figured out the next turns of what seemed like a fairly simple plot, I would read a new plot twist. The turns in the story were shocking, but believable. The characters are layered, flawed, and always compelling, if not always likeable, and du Mauriers writing is gorgeous and vivid, perfectly suited for a story where the setting is such a critical element.