Picnic at Hanging Rock - Hardcover

Lindsay, Joan

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0899665608 ISBN 13: 9780899665603

Publisher: Buccaneer Books Inc, 1986

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On St. Valentine's day in 1900, the boarders at Mrs. Appleyard's College for Young Ladies go on their annual picinic to Hanging Rock, in the Australian bush, where four of them disappear

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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)"

"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.

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