Jaws

Peter Benchley''s Jaws first appeared in 1974. Alongside Steven Spielberg''s film adaptation, the novel has sold over 20 million copies around the world, becoming a cult classic. It''s never safe to go back in the water . . . 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 of terror has begun . . .

Auteur

Peter Benchley was born in New York City in 1940 and was 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 magazine including the New Yorker and National Geographic.

Jaws was his first novel, his previous two books being a story for children and a book based on his trip round the world. Peter Benchley died in 2006.

Texte du rabat

Jaws: the classic horror that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg movie.

Résumé

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 of terror has begun . . .

'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