Grace Metalious

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

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 ...

Peyton Place

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Mississippi

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Peyton Place 

This is the bookclub edition, a facsimile of the 1956 first edition. The dust cover has some tears and light staining. The pages are in very good condition. The ISBN and publisher description below is from a newer edition. #hardcover #classic #peytonplace #rare #vintage 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Minnesota

When Grace Metalious's debut novel about the dark underside of a small, respectable New England town was published in 1956, it quickly soared to the top of the bestseller lists. 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. Through her riveting, uninhibited narrative, Metalious skillfully exposes the intricate social anatomy of a small community, examining the lives of its people--their passions and vices, their ambitions and defeats, their passivity or violence, their secret hopes and kindnesses, their cohesiveness and rigidity, their struggles, and often their courage.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.

Peyton Place (Rare Facsimile of the 1956 First Edition)

Ardis Cameron

New Mexico

Dramatizes the lives, problems, and failings of the people of a small New England town

Connecticut

#classic #historicalfiction #drama #gracemetalious #novel #blockbuster #shockedthenation #bestseller #smalltownlife

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