Picnic At Hanging Rock
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
On St. Valentine's Day, 1900, a group of Australian schoolgirls set out on a picnic excursion to the ancient and brooding Hanging Rock, a volcanic formation rising from the Victorian plains — and three of them vanish without a trace. Picnic at Hanging Rock chronicles the haunting aftermath of this inexplicable disappearance, as the tight-knit community of Appleyard College unravels in the wake of the mystery, gripped by grief, suspicion, and an encroaching madness that no rational mind can dispel. Joan Lindsay's masterwork operates in the fertile space between reality and dream, weaving together the pastoral beauty of the Australian landscape with a pervasive, almost mythic dread. Her prose is luminous and deceptively still, drawing the reader ever deeper into a world where the land itself seems to possess a silent, indifferent agency. First published in 1967 and later immortalised by Peter Weir's acclaimed 1975 film adaptation — as noted on this very edition — the novel endures as a cornerstone of Australian literature, asking a question it deliberately refuses to answer: what truly happened at Hanging Rock?
Author: Joan Lindsay
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
On St. Valentine's Day, 1900, a group of Australian schoolgirls set out on a picnic excursion to the ancient and brooding Hanging Rock, a volcanic formation rising from the Victorian plains — and three of them vanish without a trace. Picnic at Hanging Rock chronicles the haunting aftermath of this inexplicable disappearance, as the tight-knit community of Appleyard College unravels in the wake of the mystery, gripped by grief, suspicion, and an encroaching madness that no rational mind can dispel. Joan Lindsay's masterwork operates in the fertile space between reality and dream, weaving together the pastoral beauty of the Australian landscape with a pervasive, almost mythic dread. Her prose is luminous and deceptively still, drawing the reader ever deeper into a world where the land itself seems to possess a silent, indifferent agency. First published in 1967 and later immortalised by Peter Weir's acclaimed 1975 film adaptation — as noted on this very edition — the novel endures as a cornerstone of Australian literature, asking a question it deliberately refuses to answer: what truly happened at Hanging Rock?