Jaws (novel) Jaws (novel) 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 shark fisherman Frank Mundus in 1964. Doubleday commissioned him to write the novel in 1971, a period when Benchley struggled as a freelance journalist. Through a marketing campaign orchestrated by Doubleday and paperback publisher Bantam, "Jaws" was incorporated into many book sales clubs catalogues and
Jaws in Japan no nudity and no sex between characters are shown; however, bloody violence occurs in brief scenes. The title's reference to the original "Jaws" film attracted legal attention, with the creators of the Japanese movie having failed to obtain any sort of permission to use that name. Despite the introduction of the "Psycho Shark" title later on, the original name appears to have gained some traction in popular culture and has stuck. The exploitative nature of the movie attracted condemnation from a variety of publications, such as an article in "Vanity Fair" labeling the "rip-off" film worth being "forgotten". Jaws in