by Grace Metalious
This is actually a decent read, less sensational and more literate than the typical "trash" novel. Grace Metalious tells a compelling story and offers some surprising insights into human nature and small town dynamics. I breezed through this book and the sequel, Return to Peyton Place, over a weeken...
This is actually a decent read, less sensational and more literate than the typical "trash" novel. Grace Metalious tells a compelling story and offers some surprising insights into human nature and small town dynamics. I breezed through this book and the sequel, Return to Peyton Place, over a weeken...
An interesting look at small town life.
Imagine any modern soap opera. Then heighten it and transport it to a small town in New England in the 1930s and you'll get Peyton Place, a book written by Grace Metalious in the 1950s, and caused such a scandal that it was banned.I was so suprised by this novel. When my Mum handed it over to me las...
Grace Metalious is theyoung housewife in blue jeans whocreated America's most controver-sial novel...PEYTON PLACE, the big best-seller about small town U.S.A.which has been damned and banned--and hailed as "one of themost extraordinary literary discov-eries of recent years."Now a great 20th-Century-...
Not as scandalous as reviews led me to believe, but I can imagine how it might have been crazy shocking back in the 50s. It kept me interested the whole time, and a few of the characters reminded me of real people I know...not exactly a compliment to those people, in some cases. I found myself hat...
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