In 1975, I saw an Australian movie, Picnic at Hanging Rock, one of the most perfect and perfectly weird films I have ever seen.  The impact of this film still resonates with me, and when I was looking for another book at Powells, and noticed this, I HAD to have it.  I had no idea the film was based on a book, and yet here we are.  And it is every bit as freakily good as the movie as.   It begins as a […]