Peyton Place (Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England)

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Peyton Place (Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England)

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.

Country	USA
Author	Grace Metalious
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: Northeastern University Press
EAN	9781555534004
Edition	New edition
Feature	Great product!
ISBN	1555534007
Label	Northeastern
Manufacturer	Northeastern
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	384
PublicationDate	1999-03-04
Publisher	Northeastern
Studio	Northeastern
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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