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by: Ira Levin
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780451194008
ISBN: 0451194004
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: September 01, 1997
Publisher: Signet
Sales Rank: 139619
Studio: Signet
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Product Description:
The basis of the 1968 Oscar-winning film, a tale of the demonic follows a young couple who move into a Manhattan apartment and are haunted by their eccentric elderly neighbors. By the author of The Stepford Wives. Reissue. NYT. '
Amazon.com Review:
When published in 1967, Rosemary's Baby was one of the first contemporary horror novels to become a national bestseller. Ira Levin's second novel (he went on to write such fine thrillers as A Kiss Before Dying, The Stepford Wives, and The Boys from Brazil), Rosemary's Baby, remains perhaps his best work. The author's mainstream 'this is how it really happened' style undeniably also made the novel his most widely imitated. The plot line is deceptively simple: What if you were a happily married young woman, living in New York, and one day you awoke to find yourself pregnant? And what if your loving husband had--apparently--sold your soul to Satan? And now you were beginning to believe that your unborn child was, in reality, the son of Satan? Levin subtly makes it all totally plausible, unless of course, dear Rosemary--or the reader--can no longer distinguish fantasy from reality! A wonderfully chilling novel, it was later faithfully transformed into an equally unnerving motion picture. In 1997, a sequel was spawned, Son of Rosemary. --Stanley Wiater
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A Great Classic Never Dies
This book has been sitting on my shelf for a while. I've just put it down and am glad I picked it up in the first place.
It was a very quick, easy read. I finished it in 3 days. I've seen the movie many years ago, so I knew the basics. I really dug the book. Plus, gotta remember that there was nothing like this in '68. Before that was Hitchcock-type horror (Psycho comes to mind), and the usual Dracula/Werewolf/Swamp Thing type monsters. This book made mainstream horror fiction a huge ... Read More
Rating: - witchy realism
Difficult to put these sorts of things into writing without
either overdoing it--a devil baby born with a tail may be
a bit overdone-- but readers, raised in schools that taught
science and evolution but nothing about witchery beyond the
historic facts of the Salem witch trials, need some physical evidence...
and that's where Ira Levin succeeds in taking this beyond
the scary ghost story that fades away at dawn...
Rating: - amazing condition for the price
I bought this as a used copy for $.16. It arrived in about a week. I'm thrilled to own this classic, especially for such an awesome price. Would buy again from this seller.
Rating: - Good read.
Although I didn't find this book particularly frightening, I enjoyed the story and think it's well above average for the genre. It was well-written and the characters are all very memorable, especially Hutch and the doctor. I thoroughly enjoyed being in Rosemary's world throughout the read. So much so that I rented the DVD & I'm very much looking forward to viewing it tonight.
Rating: - Uncomfortably Good
There are some scenes from film that are so ingrained in your psyche that even if you have not seen a particular movie you feel you know that movie intimately because it has been played over and over through out your lifetime. The scene in which Mia Farrow screams "What have you done to its eyes?...What have you done to him you maniacs?" is one of those scenes from Roman Polanski's film version of Rosemary's Baby". Having never seen "Rosemary's Baby" I knew very well what the movie was about before ... Read More
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