Rosemary's baby, Ira Levin
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Rosemary's baby, Ira Levin
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Rosemary's baby
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22766013
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Ira Levin
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As the happily married, innocent and childishly vulnerable Rosemary Woodhouse who gradually becomes a horrific travesty of her former self. Without indulging in gore, violence or gothic melodrama, the author creates the ultimate nightmare: a woman carrying the offspring of Satan. This is no humdrum tale of witches and warlocks, however. Levin brilliantly constructs a tantalizing psychological dimension whereby the reader can never be sure whether Rosemary's fears about the malign paternity of her unborn child are grounded in reality or merely a figment of her own imagination resulting from prepartum hysteria. The outcome may be the same - a mother seeing the incarnation of evil in her own baby- but of the two options to explain it, the suggestion that it is simply the product of a disturbed mind is by far the more unsettling
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