Bibliograph

Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay ; foreword by Maile Meloy

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Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay ; foreword by Maile Meloy

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Oclc number

980584048

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Joan Lindsay ; foreword by Maile Meloy

Summary

"A 50th-anniversary edition of the haunting novel about the disappearance of three boarding school girls that inspired the acclaimed film--featuring a foreword by Maile Meloy, author of Do Not Become Alarmed It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of the secluded volcanic outcropping. Farther, higher, until at last they disappeared. They never returned. Mysterious and subtly erotic, Picnic at Hanging Rock inspired the iconic 1975 film of the same name by Peter Weir. A beguiling landmark of Australian literature, it stands with Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, and Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides as a masterpiece of intrigue"--, Provided by publisher

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