She is full of hope and excited to see her husband again but also all the nurses and doctors who have been attending her. We have Marda West in hospital for an eye surgery which is supposed to return her vision to her there is to be a fitting of temporary blue lenses followed by permanent ones. The Blue Lenses is probably my favourite, and also the most unnerving in the book, where it isn’t perhaps only the main character who is wondering what game is being played with her, but us as well. In this story, like in My Cousin Rachel, which I just revisited, I felt du Maurier like a puppet master played with us as well, getting us to see certain things, and then throwing in a twist, and then a further one which we don’t see coming at all. When he arrives there with his art supplies, he begins to find that he is actually enjoying the process of painting. He picks a shabby home in a shabby neighbourhood, where the caretaker is a young woman with a child, and leases a room there in the guise of an artist seeking a quiet space to work. Suddenly disgusted with the world around him, he comes up with a sinister plan-to randomly murder someone. N° de ref.The first story, The Alibi is about James Fenton, an ordinary salaried man, out on a Sunday afternoon walk with his wife when something in him snaps. In this collection, as in The Apple Tree, Daphne du Maurier's peerless craftmanship, her eerie sense of the macabre, her gift for sheer story telling come to full fruition." (from Kirkus reviews) HUBIN, p.128.
Several stories, poignant and evocative, deal with children three situations might well be defined as psychotic â " though as one reads, sympathy and understanding are wholly committed one seems symbolically more the story of a country than of its people. "A haunting series of stories, in most cases putting it up to the reader to interpret the final outcome â " in all cases using the device of the moment in life when emotion or reason reaches the point of tension beyond which something snaps. The dustjacket in price-clipped with light toning to the spine and a strip of toning across the upper front panel minor finger soil to panels minor nicks to the extremities Very Good+.
Mild offsetting inside covers from dustjacket Near Fine. Octavo (19cm) brown paper-covered boards titled in gilt on the spine dustjacket 287pp.
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