Return to Peyton Place (Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England)
by Grace Metalious
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Author: Grace MetaliousContributor: Ardis Cameron
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-31
ISBN: 1555536697
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Northeastern
Book Reviews of Return to Peyton Place (Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England)
Book Review: Revisiting 1960 one book at a time
Summary: 5 Stars
I first read Peyton Place and Return to Peyton Place as a teenager in the 60's. I think my mother threw my original copies out after I left home so I decided I needed to purchase a copy that only I would throw out and see if I thought the Peyton Place books were as racy now as everyone thought they were then. The answer is 'no, they are not' however, that is based on a much more worldly adult view in a much more 'wordly' world. Still, these are interesting books from a time when many people called them trash and most certainly would never read them. I wonder what the author, Grace Metalious, experienced that helped create the fictional dramas she wrote. Because she died young less than 10 years after publication of her first book, I doubt we will ever really know.
Summary of Return to Peyton Place (Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England)
In 1956 Grace Metalious published Peyton Place, the novel that unbuttoned the straitlaced New England of the popular imagination, transformed the publishing industry, topped the bestseller lists for more than a year, and made its young author one of the most talked-about people in America. In 1959 the sizzling sequel, Return to Peyton Place, picked up where Peyton Place left off: Allison MacKenzie, now the author of America's #1 bestseller, is thrown into the glamorous whirl of the smart set of New York and Hollywood. At home, the rest of the most controversial characters in 1950s American fiction continue to create a stir in this ongoing expose of sex, hypocrisy, social inequity, and class privilege in contemporary America. Peyton Place, the small, seemingly respectable New England town, is revealed as a vividly realistic cauldron of secrets and scandal. Peyton Place and its sequel, Return to Peyton Place, the books that readers used to hide under their mattresses, are now recognized by scholars as the Silent Generation's Perfect Storm and predecessors to the women's liberation movement. Treat yourself to this rediscovered classic.Historical Books
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