Vertigo : Or the Living and the Dead (Hardcover)

from Michael.Rimmer

An intriguing mystery, revolving around an obsessional neurotic's decent into psychosis. Flavières' fixation upon the otherworldly Madeleine is creepy from the outset, develops into unpleasantness, finally twisting into a controlling abusiveness. Well-worthy of the Hitchcock treatment, a psycholo...

from Unkletom

Yep, this is that Vertigo, the one that Alfred Hitchcock made famous although you shouldn't go into this hoping to find it similar to the movie. For starters, this was not based in San Francisco. The book was written in 1954 by French collaborators (a poor choice of words) Pierre Boileau and Pier...

from ElizaJane

I've been getting around to reading some of the novels and stories that Hitchcock based his movies on. I've seen "Vertigo" starring Jimmy Stewart a couple of times but it isn't one I know too well. Going into the book I was looking forward to the big Vertigo scene in the church tower. I vaguely r...

from irkthepurist

How very bizarre this book is. An overwrought, slightly hysterical crime melodrama - but one with a central idea so brilliant, so fantastically clever and elegantly simple that no wonder Hitchcock went crazy for it. It's rare to find a book which is so utterly improved upon by it's film adaptatio...

from missizicks

I was intrigued to read the book which became a Hitchcock film. Especially because I read that Boileau and Nacejac wrote it with Hitchcock in mind, after he failed to secure the rights to their first novel. I like the film. The book is just different enough to make it better than the film. The se...