Picnic at Hanging Rock
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Joan Lindsay
*Now a six-part TV series starring Natalie Dormer, from Amazon Prime*A 50th-anniversary edition of the landmark novel about three “gone girls” that inspired the acclaimed 1975 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.
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Author
Joan Lindsay
Pages
224
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2017-10-03
ISBN
0143132059 9780143132059
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"Interesting read about a single event and how it affects the lives of those barely related to it."
Sarah Brown
""Everyone agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock."<br/><br/>I don't even want to write this review because I'm so annoyed by this book. I feel like there was framework for a promising story & that it was just thrown out the window. <br/><br/>I kept waiting for something sinister to happen AND IT NEVER CAME. There was all this chatter about doom and darkness, which are two things that are non-existent in this novel.<br/><br/>I got invested in the girls' story, and then so much of the book was about random guys who were associated with them. I tried to care & just couldn't. I was bored. There were way too many characters and I couldn't keep the random guys straight. <br/><br/>I hate the ending. That's all I'll say about it."
Emily
"This book is a tale of the unsolved disappearance of a group of schoolgirls on a picnic trip and how that shock reverberates through their community and changes other characters’ lives forever.<br/><br/>The points of view are all well done in terms of having different voices and showing which aspects of what had happened mattered to them. I understand from the introduction that there were originally supernatural elements that were toned down for publication and I think that was a good call. <br/><br/>Due to the setting and the publication date, there are a few things that seem pretty dated, including racially insensitive language and a weird obsession with bullying one of the children for being fat."
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