Return to Peyton Place

Return to Peyton Place

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 Americaâ€™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 exposÃ© 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 Generationâ€™s Perfect Storm and predecessors to the womenâ€™s liberation movement. Treat yourself to this rediscovered classic.
Country USA
Manufacturer Northeastern University Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-01-01
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Northeastern University Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-01-01
Format	Kindle eBook

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