![]() ![]() ![]() I saw, trailing in the air above a small barge, a dense moving cloud as small as a man’s hand. “My eyes were on the river, that fair Thames which at the port of the City widens out to the sea. ![]() One hot August day, hoping to escape temporarily from his soul-killing work, he climbs out on the roof of his office building to contemplate the city: Did du Maurier or Hitchcock know the book? Probably not, but in his introductory essay to this greatly welcome Valancourt edition - which prints the author’s later, preferred text - Ken Mogg points out some intriguing parallels between the film and the novel.īaker’s plot is this: An old man, living in a pastoral farming community, reminisces to his granddaughter about the time “before the birds came.” That era, it turns out, was the early 1930s when the narrator - like Baker himself - was employed as a maritime insurance clerk. But Frank Baker’s premise is much the same, and his eerie yet satirical and rather metaphysical novel first appeared in 1936. L et’s talk turkey: This isn’t Daphne du Maurier’s 1952 story “The Birds,” the partial basis of the celebrated Alfred Hitchcock film of 1963. ![]()
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