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Peyton Place is a 1956 novel by the American author Grace Metalious. Set in New England in the time periods before and after World War II, the novel tells the story of three women who are forced to come to terms with their identity, both as women and as sexual beings, in a small, conservative, gossipy town.
Jan 4, 2021 · 514 pages ; 26 cm. Considered scandalous when first published, this story is now a modern classic. 'Peyton Place' has sold over 10,000,000 copies worldwide and remains the fourth bestselling novel of all time. Originally published: New York: Messner, 1956; London: Muller, 1957.
Peyton Place. Grace Metalious. UPNE, Mar 4, 1999 - Fiction - 372 pages. When Grace Metalious's debut novel about the dark underside of a small, respectable New England town was published in...
Jan 10, 2013 · Metalious's debut novel - which topped the bestseller lists for more than a year and spawned a feature film and long-running television series - reveals the intricate social anatomy of a small New England town.
Jun 15, 2020 · Peyton Place. Kindle Edition. Three women are forced to come to terms with their identity, both as women and as sexual beings, in a small, conservative, gossipy New England town, with recurring themes of hypocrisy, social inequities and class privilege in a tale that includes incest, abortion, adultery, lust and murder.
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Grace Metalious was an American author, best known for the controversial novel Peyton Place. She was born into poverty and a broken home as Marie Grace de Repentigny in the mill town of Manchester, New Hampshire. Blessed with the gift of imagination, she was driven to write from an early age.
In the small New England town of Peyton Place secrets are preserved for a lifetime, and skeletons are kept firmly in the closet. But the secrets of the town begin to unravel slowly one sunny...
