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Jaws
Peter Benchley
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Description for Jaws
Paperback.
It's never safe to go back in the water. Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary with 20 million copies sold, Peter Benchley's Jaws is the gripping pulp thriller that inspired Steven Spielberg's classic, blockbuster film adaptation.
It was just another day in the life of a small Atlantic resort until the terror from the deep came to prey on unwary holidaymakers. The first sign of trouble, a warning of what was to come, took the form of a young woman's body – or what was left of it – washed up on the long, white stretch of beach.
A summer ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781035048861
SKU
9781035048861
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Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2
About Peter Benchley
Peter Benchley was born in New York City in 1940, the son of novelist Nathaniel Benchley and grandson of humorist Robert Benchley. He worked as a reporter for The Washington Post, as associate editor of Newsweek and as a speech-writer for the late President Johnson. His stories and articles appeared in numerous magazines, including The New Yorker and National Geographic. ... Read more
Reviews for Jaws
Pick up Jaws before midnight, read the first five pages, and I guarantee you'll be putting it down breathless and stunned, as dawn is breaking the next day.
Daily Express
A tightly written, tautly paced study of terror [that] makes us tingle
The Washington Post
Powerful . . . [Benchley’s] story grabs you at once.
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Daily Express
A tightly written, tautly paced study of terror [that] makes us tingle
The Washington Post
Powerful . . . [Benchley’s] story grabs you at once.
... Read more