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Foyles
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'What a magnificent thriller this is' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN 'A good original novel, well tinged with nightmare' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'He turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realised, 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.'By chance, two men - one English, the other French - meet in a provincial railway station. Their resemblance is uncanny, and they spend the evening talking and drinking. It is not until John wakes the next morning that he realises his French companion has stolen his identity and disappeared. So John steps into the Frenchman's shoes, and faces a variety of perplexing roles - as owner of a chateau, director of a failing business, head of a fractious family, and master of nothing.
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By chance two men - one English the other French - meet in a provincial railway station. Their physical resemblance is uncanny and they spend the next few hours talking and drinking - until at last John the Englishman falls into a drunken stupour. It's to be his last carefree moment for when he wakes his French companion has stolen his identity and disappeared. So John steps into the Frenchman's shoes and faces a variety of perplexing roles - as owner of a chateau director of a failing business head of a fractious family and master of nothing. Gripping and complex The Scapegoat is a masterful exploration of doubling and identity and of the dark side of the self.
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TheBookPeople
By chance, two men - one English, the other French - meet in a provincial railway station. Their physical resemblance is uncanny, and they spend the next few hours talking and drinking - until at last John, the Englishman, falls into a drunken stupour. It's to be his last carefree moment, for when he wakes, his French companion has stolen his identity and disappeared. So John steps into the Frenchman's shoes, and faces a variety of perplexing roles - as owner of a chateau, director of a failing business, head of a fractious family, and master of nothing. Gripping and complex, The Scapegoat is a masterful exploration of doubling and identity, and of the dark side of the self.
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Blackwell
A masterful exploration of doubling and identity, and of the dark side of the self. One of du Maurier's most accomplished novels. 'Someone jolted my elbow as I drank and said, Je vous demande pardon, and as I moved to give him space he turned...
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BookDepository
The Scapegoat : Paperback : Little, Brown Book Group : 9781844080977 : 1844080978 : 01 Apr 2004 : A masterful exploration of doubling and identity, and of the dark side of the self. One of du Maurier's most accomplished novels.
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ASDA
Gripping and complex this is a masterful exploration of doubling and identity and of the dark side of the self.
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Pickabook
Daphne Du Maurier, Lisa Appignanesi
- 1844080978
- 9781844080977
- Daphne Du Maurier
- 1 April 2004
- Virago Press Ltd
- Paperback (Book)
- 320
- New edition
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