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The Parasites

Daphne du Maurier

Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

Rating: 3.71 | 1551 Users | 146 Reviews

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ISBN:	1844080722 (ISBN13: 9781844080724)
Edition Language:	English

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This has some brilliant ideas and contains scads of wisdom about the pitfalls and the rewards of a creative life. Three siblings whose parents were Pappy, a famous singer, and Mama, a brilliant dancer, spend an afternoon remembering their childhood and decisions they have made.

They are brought to this circumspection because Maria's husband has just called them 3 parasites. Maria and Niall and Celia (in that birth order) have always been inseparable since they were children and traveled around with their parents in a bohemian style from theater to hotel all around the world.
At first I was in disagreement with Charles, but I can see how he did suffer with a wife who was a brilliant stage actor. Of the 3 siblings, Maria was the most self-centered, but she had her art and it was her whole life. Probably, she should never have married and had children, because she ignored both. Niall was a world famous popular song writer and Celia did gorgeous drawings, but loved helping people more than her art, so she truly wasn't parasitic, unless the author is saying that some people are cloying in their need to take care of others?

This is very sad, but there is also humor in the book, in this section duMaurier is describing Niall's driving:

Always an indifferent driver . . .Niall became worse through the years, because he became progressively more vague. . . He shot traffic lights, not with intention, but because momentarily he would confuse green with red; or alternatively he would stay waiting, overtime, when the colours changed, so that only the infuriated hooting of drivers in the rear,. . .would startle him from a temporary dream into instant, and often fatal, action.

I love that section, because I am just the same!

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Title	:	The Parasites
Author	:	Daphne du Maurier
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	May 5th 2005 by Virago (first published 1949)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction

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Now that I've finished The Parasites, I'm interested in finding out how it was received back in 1949. Content-wise, at least, stepsibling incest and statutory rape are well-trodden literary grounds by now; however, du Maurier's subtlety--the way she creates the explanations in the gaps, the way she portrays the unspokenness of the "shocking" elements through vivid, suggestive details--was pretty neat.This is the third book by du Maurier I've read this year, and I'm finding her work immensely

Early on while I was reading Daphne du Maurier's The Parasites, I knew that this fictional novel had something of Daphne, herself in it, how much we have no idea but there are many things that point to her family and her life. I have not read all her books yet but I know that more of her books have something about her family. Having read both "Maryanne" and "The Glass Blowers", I know she can write a semi fictional story of her ancestors. "Maryanne" was well known and so the non fiction aspect

Not one of Du Maurier's most famous novels, but one of her very best, maybe because, for once, it's not a gothic mystery. Du Maurier's style isn't extraordinarily inventive, but it's very solid, accurate, and she has a gift for telling compelling stories with great characters. This novel about a family of artists and the complex ties that bind them all has more depth than one could expect and is the kind of book you want to read by a fire on a winter night.

i'm still thinking about this book three days later. it differs from other du maurier works in that there isn't anything gothic or spooky about it. the parasites is a novel of three siblings, two of whom are not related to each other by blood: maria, the daughter of a famous singer who marries an even more famous dancer who has a son named niall born in the same year as maria, and celia, the daughter the two artists come to have together. it is told mostly in flashback: the three siblings are

I wasn't sure at first. This is very much a character study rather than straight forward narrative but crickey, once you get absorbed into their world and lifestyle it's compelling stuff. And like all du Maurier, has a great ending that left me contemplative and satisfied.

I am really beginning to become a du Maurier fan. I find that her books are very easy to read, while still well written. There was nothing "spooky" about this story, as most of her other novels seem to have that common theme. The story revolves around three siblings who "feed off of each other" in a negative way throughout their lives. The story and the interaction between the characters really had me engrossed from the beginning. It might have been a five-star read for me, had the ending been

The Parasites has a funny status among du Maurier books. Lacking the popular appeal of her thrillers, it bemused readers on first release and has remained virtually unknown ever since. This attitude seems all the odder when you consider it's probably the most autobiographical of her works. The superficially charming, high maintenance Pappy, given to ringing declarations such as "I pack for all eternity," is her father Gerald to the life.Simply put, it's the story of three 'siblings' (family is a