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Peyton Place is a 1956 novel by the American author Grace Metalious. Set in New England in the time periods before and after World War II, the novel tells the story of three women who are forced to come to terms with their identity, both as women and as sexual beings, in a small, conservative, gossipy town.
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Jun 15, 2020 · Three women are forced to come to terms with their identity, both as women and as sexual beings, in a small, conservative, gossipy New England town, with recurring themes of hypocrisy, social inequities and class privilege in a tale that includes incest, abortion, adultery, lust and murder.
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Mar 1, 2011 · This new paperback edition of Peyton Place features an insightful introduction by Ardis Cameron that thoroughly examines the novel's treatment of class, gender, race, ethnicity, and power, and considers the book's influential place in American and New England literary history.
May 18, 2013 · First published in 1956, Peyton Place uncovers the passions, lies and cruelties that simmer beneath the surface of a postcard-perfect town.
A landmark in twentieth-century American popular culture, Peyton Place spawned a successful feature film and a long-running television series—the first prime-time soap opera. Contemporary readers of Peyton Place will be captivated by its vivid characters, earthy prose, and shocking incidents.
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Peyton Place. Grace Metalious. Simon and Schuster, 1981 - Fiction - 371 pages. Peyton Place is a literary masterpiece, brilliantly written, every word artfully crafted. It was made into a...
Mar 4, 1999 · Taking place from 1937 to 1944, Peyton Place is a coming-of-age story of sorts about a teenager, her mother, and her friend from the wrong side of town. More generally, Metalious drives home the hypocrisy of a stalwart stuffy New England town by revealing what lies below the surface.
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Jan 4, 2021 · Considered scandalous when first published, this story is now a modern classic. 'Peyton Place' has sold over 10,000,000 copies worldwide and remains the fourth bestselling novel of all time. Originally published: New York: Messner, 1956; London: Muller, 1957.
