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Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin

Description: ISBN 0747557772 / Author: Ira Levin / Genre: Fiction / Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor husband Guy move into the Bramford, an ... more

Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin ... old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and only elderly residents. Neighbours Roman and Minnie Castavet soon come nosing around to welcome the Woodhouses to the building; despite Rosemary's reservations about their eccentricity and the weird noises that she keeps hearing, her husband starts spending time with them. Shortly after Guy lands a plum Broadway role, Rosemary becomes pregnant and the Castavets start taking a special interest in her welfare, and as the sickened Rosemary becomes increasingly isolated, she begins to suspect that the Castavets' circle is not what it seems.

Newest Review: ... to do the washing, a problem that seems to be solved when she makes a friend and the two make plans to do their washing ... more

... together. Then her new-found friend apparently commits suicide and Rosemary meets the Castavet's, the people with whom she lived. From then on, nothing quite seems to go right in Rosemary's life, despite the fact that she is finally pregnant. I'm not giving anything else away! I did manage to see the first 15 minutes of the film before I had to take the DVD back and it was very similar to the opening of the book. However, somehow I found the book a lot more gripping. I had no idea what the book was about, but I immedi...more

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Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin: Every mother's nightmare... (868 words)
by - written on 30/11/06 (Very useful, 361 readings)
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I borrowed the film based on this book not long ago, but with one thing and another, ended up not having enough time to see it. I hadn't realised it was a book, but when I came across it in my library, I picked it up straight away. Although I haven't read any of Ira Levin's books in the past, I did know the name; not surprising really as he is also the author of The Boys from Brazil and The Stepford Wives. Although it is not of the genre that I would usually read, the book certainly lived up to my expectations. Guy and Rosemary Woodhouse are about to move into a newly rented flat, when the offer of a flat in the Victorian Bramford building, where flats are ... Read the complete review