An edition of Jaws (1973)

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Cover of: Jaws by Peter Benchley, Peter Benchley
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An edition of Jaws (1973)

Jaws

Book-of-the Month Anniversary Edition

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  • ★★★★ 4.4 (18 ratings) ·
  • 258 Want to read
  • 22 Currently reading
  • 35 Have read

Jaws is a 1974 novel by American writer Peter Benchley. It tells the story of a great white shark that preys upon a small resort town and the voyage of three men trying to kill it. The novel grew out of Benchley's interest in shark attacks after he learned about the exploits of Montauk, New York shark fisherman Frank Mundus in 1964. Doubleday commissioned him to write the novel in 1971, a period when Benchley worked as a freelance journalist.


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blue sharks, dolphins, shark cage diving, bang sticks, harpoons, Mafia, selectmen, connivance, great white sharks, thrillers, horror fiction, Fiction, Marine biologists, Police chiefs, Seaside resorts, Shark attacks, Sharks, Sea stories, Fiction, horror, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, action & adventure, Jaws (Motion picture), Fiction, sea stories, Scientists, fiction, white shark, shark fishing, United states, fiction, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, American fiction, Translations into Spanish, Spanish fiction, Literatura estadounidense, Roman espagnol, Fishes

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Chrissie Watkins, Martin Brody, Larry Vaughan, Harry Meadows, Alex Kintner, Ben Gardner, Leonard Hendricks, Matt Hooper, Ellen Brody, David Hooper, Quint

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Amity, Long Island, New York, Woods Hole Institute

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Cover of: Jaws
Jaws: 大白鲨
2018-01-01, People's Literature Publishing House
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Jaws
2005, Random House
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大白鲨: Jaws
2000-02, Yi lin
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Les dents de la mer
1976, Hachette
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Jaws
1975-01, Bantam Books
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Jaws: Les dents de la mer
1975, LES ÉDITIONS INTERNATIONALES ALAIN STANKÉ/HACHETTE LITTÉRATURE
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Jaws
1975-03, Bantam Books
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Jaws
1975-01, Bantam Books
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Tiburón
1974, Editorial Pomaire
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Jaws
1974, Book Club Associates
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311p.
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1611297222
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9781611297225
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