"Jaws: A Novel" by Peter Benchley, published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1974. Copyright 1973 by the author. First BOMSC Edition printed from the same plate as the trade edition. [Printing not stated, no printing code on page 311]. This novel is the basis for the 1975' movie Jaws by Steven Spielberg.

Hard boards, original black cloth with silvery lettering on spine; 5.3/4" x 8.1/2"; navy-blue endpapers, former owner"s label inside front cover [see photo], 311 pages, a little soiling and wear; c. five pages have ink underlines and notes [see photos]; good condition.

"A large great white shark preys upon a small Long Island resort town. A small-town police chief, a marine biologist, and a modern-day Ahab must try to stop it. But they are only three men...alone against the Great White Death...

"... Benchley's novel is more complex, with characterizations that are developed and interconnected, with a group dynamic that is as interesting as the surface story about a man-eating shark that eats a town... That was my first, pleasant surprise in reading the novel. I don’t know what exactly I expected, maybe a slightly more expounded storyline, a novelization of the surface film. What I found was a rich, layered, elaborately detailed modern morality play. More than that even, Benchley has created an allegory whereby the surface story of a shark attacking a village is represented as a conflict between Eastern elite monied people and the blue collar folks who work for a living in Amity; the great white is as DNA programmed to attack and feed as the Izod wearing preppies who populated the town in the summer are to an entitled existence at the top of our socio-economic food chain..."[from a private review]

Peter Bradford Benchley [1940-2006] was an American author, screenwriter, and ocean activist. He is known for his bestselling novel Jaws and co-wrote its film adaptation with Carl Gottlieb. Several more of his works were also adapted for both cinema and television, including The Deep, The Island, Beast, and White Shark.

The classic, blockbuster thriller of man-eating terror that inspired the Steven Spielberg movie and made millions of beachgoers afraid to go into the water. Experience the thrill of helpless horror again—or for the first time!

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