Peyton Place |
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| Author:
| Metalious, Grace |
| ISBN: | 979-8-4558-4922-0 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2021 |
| Publisher: | Independently Published
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $11.00 |
Book Description:
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Peyton Place is a 1956 novel by American author Grace Metalious. The novel describes how 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. It sold 60,000 copies within the first ten days of its release and remained on
The New York...
More Description Peyton Place is a 1956 novel by American author Grace Metalious. The novel describes how 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. It sold 60,000 copies within the first ten days of its release and remained on The New York Times best seller list for 59 weeks.