Word: rebecca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Imagined Purgatory. Like his famed mother, Rebecca West (Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, The Meaning of Treason), 35-year-old Anthony has thought earnestly and long about the tincture of guilt that has seeped into the stream of consciousness of modern man and created a field day for the psychoanalysts. Like his father, the late great H. G. Wells,* he has a considerable talent for creating the geography of a make-believe world to suit his fictional purpose...
Daphne du Maurier's new novel (her first about contemporary life since 138's bestselling Rebecca) is so plumply padded with this sort of verbiage that it resembles a kind of composite morning & evening tummy-round, full, and yet flat as a board. Replete with bestselling ingredients. The Parasites is constructed on layer-cake lines, i.e., a chapter about the dismal present is sandwiched between two flashback chapters about the glamourous past. Three main characters, members of the Delaney family, take turns telling the story. All get their chance to report in a chapter how they were seduced...