![]() It is about inhabiting a role you can’t quite play-the more I think about and read about Rebecca, the more I think this woman was right. ![]() To say that Rebecca was about a house seemed like the kind of stretch it would be to say Hamlet is about a marriage, and yet it is. As someone who has worked as a bookseller, I have gotten good at describing books I’ve read, and those I haven’t, to customers in four to nine words (which is as long as a person is willing to spend hearing about a book they probably aren’t going to read). ![]() ![]() She told her that the book was about a lot of things, but that it was really about a house. She is real and she is also a figment of your imagination.Īs I carried a copy of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca into a coffee shop recently, a woman stopped me to say it was one of her “favourites.” We spoke about it in a way that caught the attention of another woman in line, and the second woman explained the plot to the third. She is in Boston or San Francisco or Atlanta or L.A., but she is perhaps most indigenous to New York City. Her bag is from a shop you’ve heard about but haven’t gotten to yet or can’t afford. ![]() She is wearing what you ought to have chosen that morning: something much more cool or much more practical or much more elegant than you. On the train, or on line at the coffee shop where, though you are late, you have stopped for coffee. You see her sometimes on the way to work. ![]()
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