Picnic at Hanging Rock - Softcover

Lindsay, Joan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140031499 ISBN 13: 9780140031492

Publisher: Penguin, 1976

Synopsis

PENGUIN PBK,1986

About this title

Review:

"Pure magic. Every fashion film and NYU undergraduate thesis takes its cues from this lyrical masterpiece. In college I tried to make a satirical remake entitled Lunchtime at Dangling Boulder, but all my actors slept too late." --Lena Dunham, on the film adaptation

"[From the] Victorian hothouse atmosphere and fetishism . . . and its focus on the burgeoning sexual curiosity of the girls (and the women) . . . to Gothic terrors, supernatural wonder, divine mysticism, or the imperialist unconscious . . . Picnic actively encourages a host of fantasies." --Megan Abbott, author of You Will Know Me, The Fever, and Dare Me, in an essay for The Criterion Collection's Blu-ray/DVD edition of the film

"A sinister tale . . . laced with touches of other-worldliness" --The Guardian

"Deliciously horrific." --The Observer

"The fact that most people believed that this palpable fiction was a record of a real event is not merely a tribute to the writer . . . but a testimony to the atavistic power of its theme." --The Spectator

"Beautifully haunting." --The Sun Herald (Australia)

Book Description:

On St Valentines Day in 1900 a party of school girls set out for a picnic... some were never to return.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0140031499
• ISBN 13: 9780140031492
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192