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Peyton Place
Grace Metalious

Issue #0

Peyton Place

Virago Press (6 Aug 2002)
9781860499296
| Paperback
512 pages | 124 x 196 mm | English
$ 9.99 | Value: $ 9.99
Dewey 813

Genre

  • Melodramatic Fiction

Subject

  • City And Town Life
  • Fiction / General

Plot

Switch off those TVs, kill your mobiles and settle down with the most controversial book ever written. Once denounced as 'wicked', 'sordid', 'cheap' 'moral filth', PEYTON PLACE was the top read of its time and sold millions of copies worldwide. Way before TWIN PEAKS, SURVIVOR or BIG BROTHER, the curtains were twitching in the mythical New England town of Peyton Place, and this soapy story exposed the dirty secrets of 1950s small-town America: incest, abortion, adultery, repression and lust. Take a peek ...