ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1976; 1978
Jezik: Hrvatski
Autor: Strani

PETER BENCHLEY
HANK SEARLS

RALJE 1-2

Prevod - Omer Lakomica

Izdavač - Znanje, Zagreb; Grafički zavod Hrvatske, Zagreb

Godina - 1976; 1978

358 + 276 strana

20 cm

Edicija - Biblioteka Hit; Zabavna biblioteka

Povez - Tvrd

Stanje - Kao na slici, tekst bez podvlačenja


`Jaws is set in the fictional town of Amity, a small, seaside resort located on the south shore of Long Island, halfway between Bridgehampton and East Hampton. One night, after making love with a man on the beach, a young woman named Christine `Chrissy` Watkins skinny dips alone in the ocean where she is attacked and killed by a massive great white shark. The next morning, her partially eaten remains are found washed up on the beach and the coroner concludes she was the victim of a shark attack. Amity Police Chief Martin Brody then orders the beaches closed, but he is overruled by mayor Larry Vaughan and the town`s selectmen who fear damage to summer tourism, Amity`s main source of commerce. With the collusion of Harry Meadows, editor of the local newspaper, news of the attack is kept quiet.

A few days later, the shark kills a young boy and an elderly man within half an hour of each other. Ben Gardner, a local fisherman, is hired to catch the shark but he disappears at sea. Brody and his deputy, Leonard Hendricks, discover Gardner`s deserted boat anchored off-shore, covered with large bite holes, one of which has a large shark tooth stuck in it. The boy`s mother and Gardner`s widow angrily blame the deaths on Brody for not closing the beaches after they learn of the earlier attack on Chrissy Watkins. Wracked by guilt, Brody orders the beaches closed and has Meadows investigate Vaughan`s business affairs to find out why he is so determined to keep them open. Meadows soon discovers the mayor is heavily in debt to the Mafia, who are pressuring Vaughan to keep the beaches open in order to protect the value of Amity`s real estate in which the mob has invested a great deal of money; Vaughan stands to lose everything if Amity`s home market value should fall. Meadows also recruits Matt Hooper, a young ichthyologist from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for help on dealing with the shark. When shown the tooth found on Gardner`s boat, Hooper determines it to be the tooth of an unusually large great white shark.

Meanwhile, Brody`s wife, Ellen, is depressed and lamenting the loss of her youth and the affluent lifestyle she had prior to marrying Brody and having children. Coincidentally, when she was a teenager, Ellen dated Hooper`s older brother a few years before meeting Brody. She becomes fixated on Hooper as a link to the past she desperately longs for. After Hooper attends a dinner party at the Brody`s, Ellen, intent on recapturing her juvenescence and joie de vivre, decides to seduce him. The following morning, she telephones Hooper at his hotel and invites him to meet her for lunch at a restaurant several miles away from Amity. During lunch, the two have several drinks, begin flirting and after a sexually charged conversation, go to a motel. Unable to reach Hooper nor Ellen by phone that afternoon, Brody begins to suspect they have had a liaison and he becomes obsessed and tormented by the thought.`


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