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The Hunter's Moon
"They discovered the fourth murder on Halloween night and began to realize that the killer was a madman who'd kill again, and again if he wasn't caught."
214 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1972
About the author
Nathaniel Benchley
80 books26 followersBorn in Newton, Massachusetts to a literary family, he was the son of Gertrude Darling and Robert Benchley (1889-1945), the noted American writer, humorist, critic, actor, and one of the founders of the Algonquin Round Table in New York City.
Nathaniel Benchley was the highly-respected author of many children's/juvenile books that provided learning for the youthful readers with stories of various animals or through the book's historical settings. Benchley dealt with diverse locales and topics such as "Bright Candles", which recounts the experiences of a 16-year-old Danish boy during the German occupation of his country in World War II; and "Small Wolf", a story about a Native American boy who meets white men on the island of Manhattan and learns that their ideas about land are different from those of his own peoples'.
Film director/producer, Norman Jewison made Benchley's 1961 novel The Off-Islanders into a motion picture titled The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming for which he received the nomination for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay. He was a close friend of actor Humphrey Bogart and wrote his biography in 1975.
Benchley's novel Welcome to Xanadu was made into the 1975 motion picture Sweet Hostage.
His elder son, Peter Benchley (1940-2006), was a writer best known for writing the novel Jaws and the screenplay of the 1975 Steven Spielberg film made from it. His younger son, Nat Benchley, is a writer and actor who has portrayed his grandfather, Robert Benchley, in a one-man, semi-biographical stage show, "Benchley Despite Himself". The show was a compilation of Robert Benchley's best monologues, short films, radio rantings and pithy pieces as recalled, edited, and acted by his grandson Nat, and combined with family reminiscences and friends' perspectives."
Nathaniel Benchley died in 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts and was interred in the family plot at Prospect Hill Cemetery in Nantucket.
Nathaniel Benchley was the highly-respected author of many children's/juvenile books that provided learning for the youthful readers with stories of various animals or through the book's historical settings. Benchley dealt with diverse locales and topics such as "Bright Candles", which recounts the experiences of a 16-year-old Danish boy during the German occupation of his country in World War II; and "Small Wolf", a story about a Native American boy who meets white men on the island of Manhattan and learns that their ideas about land are different from those of his own peoples'.
Film director/producer, Norman Jewison made Benchley's 1961 novel The Off-Islanders into a motion picture titled The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming for which he received the nomination for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay. He was a close friend of actor Humphrey Bogart and wrote his biography in 1975.
Benchley's novel Welcome to Xanadu was made into the 1975 motion picture Sweet Hostage.
His elder son, Peter Benchley (1940-2006), was a writer best known for writing the novel Jaws and the screenplay of the 1975 Steven Spielberg film made from it. His younger son, Nat Benchley, is a writer and actor who has portrayed his grandfather, Robert Benchley, in a one-man, semi-biographical stage show, "Benchley Despite Himself". The show was a compilation of Robert Benchley's best monologues, short films, radio rantings and pithy pieces as recalled, edited, and acted by his grandson Nat, and combined with family reminiscences and friends' perspectives."
Nathaniel Benchley died in 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts and was interred in the family plot at Prospect Hill Cemetery in Nantucket.
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June 19, 2022
Το βιπεράκι αυτό το αγόρασα πριν επτά χρόνια από κάποιο παλαιοβιβλιοπωλείο σχεδόν εντελώς στην τύχη, ουσιαστικά μόνο γιατί βρήκα ιντριγκαδόρικη την περίληψη στο οπισθόφυλλο και επειδή μου κόστισε μόλις ένα ευρώ. Και τα έφερε κάπως η μοίρα και έτυχε να δω την απίθανη ταινία "The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!" που βασίζεται σε βιβλίο του συγγραφέα, την ίδια μέρα που ξεκίνησα τούτο το βιβλίο! Λοιπόν, την ταινία πραγματικά την απόλαυσα, και μπορώ να πω ότι το ίδιο συνέβη και με το "Η Σελήνη των Κυνηγών", έστω και σε λίγο μικρότερο βαθμό. Το βιβλίο μου άρεσε, από την αρχή μέχρι το τέλος. Ουσιαστικά ο συγγραφέας σατιρίζει με αιχμηρό και έξυπνο τρόπο τη ζωή στις μικρές πόλεις των ΗΠΑ της εποχής του, μέσω της πλοκής αναδεικνύει κάποιες από τις παθογένειες των επαρχιωτών μικροαστών, χρησιμοποιώντας παράλληλα και κάποια στοιχεία θρίλερ, μιας και η μικρή πόλη της Νέας Αγγλίας όπου διαδραματίζεται η ιστορία αναστατώνεται από ένα άγριο σεξουαλικό έγκλημα: Φυσικά οι κάτοικοι της πόλης πανικοβάλλονται και είναι έτοιμοι να πάρουν τα ντουφέκια... Πολύ μου άρεσε η γραφή, το όλο σκηνικό της μικρής πόλης με την υποκρισία, τα κουτσομπολιά, τα κρυφά πάθη και τα φανερά μίση, ενώ επίσης βρήκα την ατμόσφαιρα εξαιρετική. Γενικά, είναι ένα μυθιστόρημα που απόλαυσα από την πρώτη μέχρι την τελευταία σελίδα, χωρίς μάλιστα να έχω ιδιαίτερες προσδοκίες όταν το ξεκινούσα.
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