Peyton Place

Peyton Place

by Grace Metalious (Author), Grace Metalious (Author), India Knight (Introduction)

Synopsis

Switch off those TVs, kill your mobiles and settle down with the most controversial book ever written. Once denounced as 'wicked', 'sordid', 'cheap' 'moral filth', PEYTON PLACE was the top read of its time and sold millions of copies worldwide. Way before TWIN PEAKS, SURVIVOR or BIG BROTHER, the curtains were twitching in the mythical New England town of Peyton Place, and this soapy story exposed the dirty secrets of 1950s small-town America: incest, abortion, adultery, repression and lust. Take a peek ...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 512
Publisher: Virago
Published: 04 Jul 2002

ISBN 10: 1860499295
ISBN 13: 9781860499296

Media Reviews
'Sinclair Lewis would no doubt have hailed Grace Metalious as a sister-in-arms against the false fronts and bourgeois pretentions of allegedly respectable communities' New York Times Book Review
Author Bio
Grace Metalious was born in a French-Canadian ghetto in New Hampshire in 1924. She wrote three other novels and died of cirrhosis of the liver at age 39.