One of my favorites is on sale at Amazon.
May. 24th, 2014 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
monamidnightRebecca is only $2.99 US at Amazon right now, and as I absolutely love that damn book, I figured I'd hop online and recommend it before I forgot.
Rebecca is a first-person story told by a narrator who is never named, beyond her identity as "the second Mrs. DeWinter." The first Mrs. DeWinter, though, is the prime mover in this book, even though she's dead before the first page is turned. It is her ghost that haunts the manor, Manderley, where the second Mrs. DeWinter lives in increased isolation with her husband, who's getting less charming by the moment.
Later adapted into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock, it stands up well on its own, dreadful in the good-old fashioned 'full of dread' way, atmospheric and dark. The hold of the past has never felt so dangerous.
Rebecca is a first-person story told by a narrator who is never named, beyond her identity as "the second Mrs. DeWinter." The first Mrs. DeWinter, though, is the prime mover in this book, even though she's dead before the first page is turned. It is her ghost that haunts the manor, Manderley, where the second Mrs. DeWinter lives in increased isolation with her husband, who's getting less charming by the moment.
Later adapted into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock, it stands up well on its own, dreadful in the good-old fashioned 'full of dread' way, atmospheric and dark. The hold of the past has never felt so dangerous.
