![]() ![]() "A dazzlingly clever and immensely entertaining novel."-New York Times. Gripping and complex, The Scapegoat is a masterful exploration of doubling and identity, and of the dark side of the self. 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. It's to be his last carefree moment, for when he wakes, Jean has stolen his identity and disappeared. 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. ![]() ![]() Item #4644 By chance, John and Jean - one English, the other French - meet in a provincial railway station. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/tone. THE SCAPEGOAT by Daphne du Maurier RELEASE DATE: Feb. Black title block on spine w/tan & black letters. Scapegoat Someone jolted my elbow as I drank and said, Je vous demande pardon, and as I moved to give him space he turned and stared at me and I at him. ![]() Du Maurier, Daphne (1907-1989) The Scapegoat ![]()
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