Breaking Point [Paperback]

Daphne Du Maurier (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Avon Books (1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380010720
• ISBN-13: 978-0380010721
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,082,499 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant stories, February 14, 2012

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othoniaboys - See all my reviews

This review is from: Breaking Point (Paperback)

All of the stories in this collection are wonderful. I cannot praise them highly enough. It is too bad that this book is not better known. This fact is rather amazing when one considers the author's fame.

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful stories, September 8, 2010

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L. Xavier - See all my reviews
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For all mature readers who expect not romantic mush but strongly personal views of life.
Du Maurier's disturbing short stories are among the best I've read in English.

2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I wish I could give this more, but I can't, August 31, 2002

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Mrs Baldwin (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Breaking Point (Paperback)

If I had only been able to drag myself to the very end... but I still would have given it only 2 stars. I read about halfway through and finally decided that this book must be in Greek.

The one story that did something for me and earns this book its two-star status was the second one about the blue glasses. A young woman had surgery on her eyes and when they took the bandages off they installed blue glasses in her eyes so as to adjust to light before putting the clear ones in. But something went wrong, either with the surgery or the glasses, because she sees everyone with an animal head that defines their character. She is very relieved when her clear glasses get put in to see that everyone has a normal person's head again... but I won't take away the surprise ending. Get this book for this story's sake and you won't be sorry. Get it for a whole volume of good short stories and you will be sorry. Which is too bad.