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Peyton Place Grace Metalious

Peyton Place By Grace Metalious

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious


$13.99
Condition - Very Good
8 in stock

Summary

* a searing portrait of small-town hypocrisy written in the page-turning style that found PP a permanent place in publishing history * once a banned book, this novel spawned a TV series and a film

Peyton Place Summary

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

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 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

About Grace Metalious

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.

Additional information

GOR001207501
9781860499296
1860499295
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
20020704
512
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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