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Picnic at Hanging Rock Paperback - 2017

by Joan Lindsay; Foreword by Maile Meloy


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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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  • Title Picnic at Hanging Rock
  • Author Joan Lindsay; Foreword by Maile Meloy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 50 ANV
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group
  • Date 2017-10-03
  • ISBN 9780143132059 / 0143132059
  • Weight 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 0.4 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 1.02 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1140
  • Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Horror fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017020324
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Joan Lindsay was born Joan Beckett Weigall in Melbourne, Australia, in 1896. She attended Clyde Girls Grammar School, the model for Appleyard College in Picnic at Hanging Rock, and the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, where she studied painting. On Valentine's Day 1922 she married Daryl Lindsay in London. She chose Valentine's Day 1900 as the setting for Picnic at Hanging Rock, her best-known work, which was first published in 1967 and is the basis for the 1975 film of the same name by Peter Weir. She died in Melbourne in 1984. Maile Meloy (foreword) is the author of the novels Do Not Become Alarmed, Liars and Saints, and A Family Daughter; the story collections Half in Love and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review); and the Apothecary series, a middle-grade trilogy. She has received The Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize, the PEN/Malamud Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Rosenthal Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles.
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