3 replies on “Punching Day: Peter Benchley’s White Shark”
If you, like me, wanted deeply to read this and found it unavailable at your library, it is available on the Internet Archive with an account.
Just commenting to nitpick: while Jaws was optioned before it was published, the movie producers had read the unpublished novel and made their offer based on that, not just the concept
I guess it’s interesting that Benchley died of pulmonary fibrosis and also wrote a novel apparently full of references to lungs, breathing, O2, lung related body horror and so on. Did he already know he had a fatal lung condition when he wrote it, or was his body trying to tell him something?
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3 replies on “Punching Day: Peter Benchley’s White Shark”
If you, like me, wanted deeply to read this and found it unavailable at your library, it is available on the Internet Archive with an account.
Just commenting to nitpick: while Jaws was optioned before it was published, the movie producers had read the unpublished novel and made their offer based on that, not just the concept
I guess it’s interesting that Benchley died of pulmonary fibrosis and also wrote a novel apparently full of references to lungs, breathing, O2, lung related body horror and so on. Did he already know he had a fatal lung condition when he wrote it, or was his body trying to tell him something?