Daphne Du Maurier - Short Story Collections Don't Look Now, the Breaking Point, the Apple Tree, the Birds and Other Stories - Rocky_45 [CPUL]

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Chapters: Don't Look Now, the Breaking Point, the Apple Tree, the Birds and Other Stories, the Blue Lenses and Other Stories, Kiss Me Again, Stranger, Not After Midnight. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Don't Look Now is a 1971 collection of short stories by Daphne du Maurier. It was published in Britain under the title Not After Midnight by Gollancz, and published in America by Doubleday as Don't Look Now. The title story was adapted for the classic 1973 film of the same name directed by Nicolas Roeg, a radio adaptation by Ronald Frame first broadcast 9 December, 2001, on BBC Radio 4 as part of the Classic Serial series, and a stage play by Nell Leyshon in 2005. The book contains several novella-length stories, all with different characters and themes but similar in that they touch on the supernatural or strange events. The short story Don't Look Now differs from the filmed version in several respects. The Baxters are in Venice trying to recover from the death of their daughter Christine. In the book it is stated that Christine died from meningitis. In the filmed version, the little girl, clad in a red plastic raincoat, drowns at the family home one Sunday afternoon. The director portrays this in a highly stylized manner, and his motives are made clearer as the film progresses. In the short story, Laura and John joke about a couple of odd-looking identical twins eating in the same Venice restaurant as themselves. In the film, they are simply sisters. In the book, Laura states that in the toilet she "felt faint" after the ladies had talked to her about the dead Christine. Roeg portrays Christie as actually fainting, once arriving at the table following a trip to the toilet.