My Cousin Rachel Mass market paperbound - 1985
by Daphne du Maurier
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Readers largely admired du Maurier’s elegant prose and carefully built psychological tension. The book’s draw is its ambiguity: an unreliable narrator and a heroine who resists fixed interpretation, sparking debate over Rachel’s culpability versus her constraint within patriarchal norms. Philip was widely derided as naive, possessive, and exasperating—traits that fuel the story’s unease as much as readers’ frustration. Comparisons to Rebecca were frequent; some preferred that novel’s menace, while others found My Cousin Rachel equally compelling. The ending divided opinion, praised as purposeful uncertainty by some and dismissed as a cop-out by others. A few noted predictability or a slower mystery, yet many still found it absorbing; the audiobook narration also drew praise.
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elegant prosepsychological suspenseambiguousunreliable narratorpolarizing endingfrustrating narratorcharacter studyatmosphericthought-provokingslow-burni was looking for Ms DuMaurier's books in a rare fit of nostalgia...i purchased this one---JAMAICA INN---and FRENCHMAN'S CREEK---a rather BigThree from my pre-teen years...as far as the writing goes/went...this book is highbrow Gothic...mannered i style nowadays but boy howdy Daphne can conjure up a few chills...i am not big on Romance Novels but this one plus the other two will give an idea of what real Writing is...in a non-highbrow genre....word up, y'all!!!
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- Title My Cousin Rachel
- Author Daphne du Maurier
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition Second edition
- Pages 348
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dell Publishing Company, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication date November 1, 1985
- ISBN 9780440159933 / 0440159938
- Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
- Category Fiction - General
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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