Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters

图书信息

作者	Jane Dunn
出版社	HarperPress
ISBN	9780007347117
出版时间	2013-02-21
字数	73.5万
分类	进口书,外文原版书,文学,自传,回忆录

读书简介

Celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters, eclipsed by her fame, are revealed in all their surprising complexity in this riveting new biography. The middle sister in a famous artistic dynasty, Daphne du Maurier is one of the master storytellers of our time, author of ‘Rebecca’, ‘Jamaica Inn’ and ‘My Cousin Rachel’, and short stories, ‘Don’t Look Now’ and the terrifying ‘The Birds’ among many. Her stories were made memorable by the iconic films they inspired, three of them classic Hitchcock chillers. But it was her sisters, writer Angela and artist Jeanne,who found the courage to defy the conventions that hampered Daphne’s emotional life. In this group biography they are considered side by side, as they were in life, three sisters who grew up during the 20th century in the glamorous hothouse of a theatrical family dominated by a charismatic and powerful father. This family dynamic reveals the hidden world of the three sisters – Piffy, Bird & Bing, as they were known to each other – full of social non-conformity, love, rivalry and compulsive make-believe, their lives as psychologically complex as a Daphne du Maurier novel.

目录

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Du Maurier Family Tree

Preface

1. The Curtain Rises

2. Lessons in Disguise

3. The Dancing Years

4. Love and Losing

5. In Pursuit of Happiness

6. Set on Adventure

7. Stepping Out

8. A Transfiguring Flame

9. Fruits of War

10. A Mind in Flight

11. A Kind of Reckoning

12. Heading for Home

Afterword

Picture Section

Footnotes

Notes

Illustrations

Select Bibliography

Acknowledgements

About the Author

By the Same Author

Copyright

About the Publisher