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Rebeccawas Daphne du Maurier's most famous and best-loved novel. But what happened next? Married to the sophisticated, wordly-wise Maxim, the second Mrs de Winter's life should be happy and fulfilled. But the vengeful ghost of Rebecca, Maxim's first wife, continues to cast its long shadow over them. Back in England after an absence of over ten years, it seems as if happiness will at last be theirs. But the de Winters still have to reckon with two hate-consumed figures they once knew - both of whom have very long memories...… (plus d'informations)
The narrator frustrated me so much when I read du Maurier's Rebecca that I picked this book up in hopes that Susan Hill had taken the main character and transplanted a spine into her body. Unfortunately this is not the case. The second Mrs de Winter is still a pathetic, submissive little twit with no authority. She has no name, so let's just call her what she is: Wimpy Pushover de Winter.
I truly hope I never have to read another book with such a poor excuse for a woman as a main character. If Susan Hill had killed her off I would have been appeased; someone needs to put this creature out of her misery ( )
Quite honestly, I'm not entirely sure whether this novel failed me as a reader or I simply failed to comprehend what the author trying to accomplish. Written as a sequel to Du Maurier's classic "Rebecca," Hill's novel does a creditable job of capturing the sense of darkness in it's precursor. Hill has also done a good job of capturing the tone and flavor of duMaurier's language. However, overall, the books is, for me, a fail. It was not compelling; not even interesting. I was, in fact, hard pressed to continue reading. The pacing of the book is glacially slow. I suspect that is purposeful--a part of Hill's effort to recreate the tone of du Maurier's book, but is ill-suited to the modern reader and that may be the explanation for why a writer as accomplished as Ms. Hill should have fallen so far short of the mark in this particular work. ( )
Susan Hill does a good job of mimicking Daphne du Maurier's writing style...but that's about it. Ms. du Maurier was a master at not wasting words and developing a really tight plot. I've read about halfway through Hill's sequel, and I'm still waiting for something to happen! So far, she's used lots of words to describe how traumatized and unhappy Mrs. de Winter is. ( )
I spent the entire book waiting for the inevitable to happen, which it did at a very languid pace. I guess that's what du Maurier did too, but somehow she made it live. ( )
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The undertaker's men were like crows, stiff and black, and the cars were black, lined up beside the path that led to the church; and we, we too were black, as we stood in our pathetic, awkward group, waiting for them to lift out the coffin and shoulder it, and for the clergyman to arrange himself; and he was another black crow, in his long cloak.
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I went to the side and waited a moment, and then I opened the small box, and overturned it gently, tipping its fine pale powder out, and as I did so, the ashes lifted, and blew away from me, carried toward Manderly with the salt wind from the sea.
Rebeccawas Daphne du Maurier's most famous and best-loved novel. But what happened next? Married to the sophisticated, wordly-wise Maxim, the second Mrs de Winter's life should be happy and fulfilled. But the vengeful ghost of Rebecca, Maxim's first wife, continues to cast its long shadow over them. Back in England after an absence of over ten years, it seems as if happiness will at last be theirs. But the de Winters still have to reckon with two hate-consumed figures they once knew - both of whom have very long memories...
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