The scapegoat / Daphne Du Maurier.
By: Du Maurier, Daphne.
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Co. Inc., c1957Description: 348 p. 22 cm.Subject(s): Aristocracy (Social class)--Fiction | British--France--Fiction | France--Fiction | Romantic suspense fictionDDC classification: Fic M89s 1957 Summary: By chance, John and Jean -- one English, the other French -- meet in a provincial railway station. Their resemblance to each other is uncanny, and they spend the next few hours talking and drinking - until at last John falls into a drunken stupor. It's to be his last carefree moment, for when he wakes, Jean has stolen his identity and disappeared. So the Englishman 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.Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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By chance, John and Jean -- one English, the other French -- meet in a provincial railway station. Their resemblance to each other is uncanny, and they spend the next few hours talking and drinking - until at last John falls into a drunken stupor. It's to be his last carefree moment, for when he wakes, Jean has stolen his identity and disappeared. So the Englishman 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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