{"product_id":"picnic-at-hanging-rock-isbn-9780143132059","title":"Picnic at Hanging Rock","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Now a six-part TV series starring Natalie Dormer, from Amazon Prime*\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eDo Not Become Alarmed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. . . .\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Mysterious and subtly erotic, \u003ci\u003ePicnic at Hanging Rock \u003c\/i\u003einspired the iconic 1975 film of the same name by Peter Weir. A beguiling landmark of Australian literature, it stands with Shirley Jackson’s \u003ci\u003eWe Have Always Lived in the Castle,\u003c\/i\u003e Daphne du Maurier’s \u003ci\u003eRebecca, \u003c\/i\u003eand Jeffrey Eugenides’ \u003ci\u003eThe Virgin Suicides \u003c\/i\u003eas a masterpiece of intrigue.“In the seemingly limitless pantheon of gone-girl literature, \u003ci\u003ePicnic at Hanging Rock\u003c\/i\u003e might take the prize for best setting. . . . It’s a proto-\u003ci\u003eVirgin Suicides,\u003c\/i\u003e dreamy and haunting, animated by a sense of slightly sickening erotic mystery.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[This] cult novel—the first in a thriving genre of ‘gone girls’—continues to beguile . . . and will continue to haunt readers for generations to come.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eLunchtime at Dangling Boulder, \u003c\/i\u003ebut all my actors slept too late.” —\u003cb\u003eLena Dunham, on the film adaptation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “[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 . . .\u003ci\u003e Picnic \u003c\/i\u003eactively encourages a host of fantasies.” —\u003cb\u003eMegan Abbott, author of \u003ci\u003eYou Will Know Me,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Fever, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDare Me, \u003c\/i\u003ein an essay for The Criterion Collection’s Blu-ray\/DVD edition of the film\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A sinister tale . . . laced with touches of other-worldliness” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Deliciously horrific.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “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.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Beautifully haunting.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sun Herald\u003c\/i\u003e (Australia)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoan Lindsay\u003c\/b\u003e was born Joan à Beckett Weigall in Melbourne, Australia, in 1896. She attended Clyde Girls Grammar School, the model for Appleyard College in \u003ci\u003ePicnic at Hanging Rock\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003ePicnic at Hanging Rock\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaile Meloy\u003c\/b\u003e (foreword) is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eDo Not Become Alarmed, Liars and Saints,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Family Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e; the story collections \u003ci\u003eHalf in Love \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBoth Ways Is the Only Way I Want It \u003c\/i\u003e(named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e); and the Apothecary series, a middle-grade trilogy. She has received \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e’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.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300812869861,"sku":"NP9780143132059","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143132059.jpg?v=1767734768","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/picnic-at-hanging-rock-isbn-9780143132059","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}