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The breaking point [Hardcover]

Daphne Du Maurier (Author), Margot Tomes (Illustrator)
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)


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  • Hardcover: 307 pages
  • Publisher: Doubleday & Company; 1st edition (1959)
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B0007DUMAI
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,938,744 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful stories, September 8, 2010
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.
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2.0 out of 5 stars I wish I could give this more, but I can't, August 31, 2002
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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.

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