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REVIEWS: Peyton Place
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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. 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.
Characters: 101. Amazon rating: 4 stars. Genre: Fiction.
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