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Ebook About 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.Book Peyton Place Review :
PEYTON PLACE did indeed sell a million copies -- several millions by now -- and inspired a movie, a sequel, and a long-running television soap opera. The story of meek Allison McKenzie, growing up in the late Thirties in a hypocritical mill town in New England in the household of a demanding mother, fascinated many. Yes, some of the language is coarse, but it's naturally coarse language. Allison's friend, through no real fault of her own, gets involved in a legal wrangle about exactly the kind of things Peyton Place "doesn't talk about," which forms the moral and dramatic core of the book. PEYTON PLACE deserves to be read, even today, though I'd recommend skipping the Foreword because it gives too much of the plot away. Grace Metalious (1924-1964) was New England mill town girl who married her high school sweetheart, struggled in poverty while he went to college on the G.I. Bill, and then found herself the wife of a school principal in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. It was not a role she relished: Metalious had a deeply ingrained rebellious streak and she was dismissive of small town society. Battening on stories of small town scandal, and herself the subject of small town disapproval, the novel she produced rocked and shocked the American reading public. What most novels implied, the 1956 PEYTON PLACE flatly specified, and its subjects included illegitimacy, rape, abortion, murder, alcoholism, venereal disease, suicide, and incest. Critics didn’t like it, but the public did, and it leaped onto the New York Times best seller list and stayed there for over a year. The book’s title has become an immediately recognized byword for gossipy scandal and small town hypocrisy.Set just before and after World War II, PEYTON PLACE presents a portrait of a small New England mill town of the sort that Metalious grew up in and lived in for most of her life. The book shifts between characters and storylines, so it is both episodic and expansive, but in a general way it centers on three characters: Constance MacKenzie, her daughter Allison, and Allison’s friend Selena Cross. Connie is a striking attractive woman who lived in New York and returned to Peyton Place as a widowed mother. She seems a very respectable woman—but she harbors a secret: she was never married and her naïve daughter is illegitimate. Selena Cross, in contrast, is a girl born on the wrong side of the tracks, and Connie doesn’t approve of Allison’s friendship with her. Connie and Allison are often at odds, and curiously enough, Connie gradually forms a bond with Selena, who comes to work at Connie’s dress shop. But Selena has secrets far darker than Connie’s, and when they become public the town explodes with scandal.Metalious based Selena and the scandal that surrounds her on Barbara Roberts, a woman from the area who was at the center of an infamous 1947 court case, and many of her subplots were straight out of Gilmanton gossip. It was all super hot at the time, but what made the book such a spectacular success was its tone. It’s pretty obvious that Metalious was furious at the tittle-tattle directed her way, that she’s venting her fury and frustration, and she’s enjoying every moment of it. The book is rife with red hot fury and steaming with savage glee, and while many of the scandals Metalious describes won’t really raise an eyebrow now, her narrative power makes PEYTON PLACE a page-turner even today. It’s juicy, to say the least.A good many people come to the novel from the 1957 movie starring Lana Turner, Diane Varsi, and Hope Lange, but Hollywood’s self-censorship codes didn’t really allow for an accurate screen version, and Metalious’ novel is softened and romanticized, with most characters suffering through their various crises to arrive at happy endings—something that doesn’t happen in the novel. Suffice to say that such characters as Rodney Harrington and Norman Page, among others, don’t fare nearly so well in the book as they do in the film. But you’ll have to read the book to find out. It may not be great literature, but it’s a great read. Recommended.GFT, Amazon Reviewer Read Online Peyton Place Download Peyton Place Peyton Place PDF Peyton Place Mobi Free Reading Peyton Place Download Free Pdf Peyton Place PDF Online Peyton Place Mobi Online Peyton Place Reading Online Peyton Place Read Online Grace Metalious Download Grace Metalious Grace Metalious PDF Grace Metalious Mobi Free Reading Grace Metalious Download Free Pdf Grace Metalious PDF Online Grace Metalious Mobi Online Grace Metalious Reading Online Grace MetaliousDownload PDF The Family Gathering (Sullivan's Crossing Book 3) By Robyn Carr
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