Return to Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

She eventually persuaded Northeastern University Press to reissue the novel, and wrote a Camille Paglia-worthy introduction that casts Grace as a literary Joan of Arc, sword drawn, swinging at the oppressive social conventions of the 50s.

“Ten years ago, Ardis Cameron, a professor at the University of Southern Maine, was astonished to discover the title was out of print, and mounted a one-woman campaign to resurrect it. Metalious has lasted as a force in American life.”- Washington Times If the term ‘page turner’ has any complimentary meaning, it applies here.

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. 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. Urn:oclc:871692156 Republisher_date 20120312135202 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120310090039 Scanner 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. OL11984W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 83.70 Pages 278 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:155553760X Urn:lcp:returntopeytonpl00meta:epub:1075df2f-37f1-4bc9-83ee-b3fb6a8c8eb8 Extramarc Duke University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier returntopeytonpl00meta Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1bk2fr4z Isbn 9781555536695ġ555536697 Lccn 2007007182 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL17228783M Openlibrary_edition

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Return to Peyton Place by Grace Metalious