false <![CDATA[Peyton Place]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175545229m/526869.jpg 526869 13 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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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. 37258 1956 Peyton Place total:1030|5:219|4:367|3:338|2:88|1:18| 1030 3771 1514 162 5 1 false false Tue Jun 17 08:47:15 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 08:55:20 -0700 2008 Forget about the naysayers who write it off as mere soap, Metalious' earthy descriptions of the seasons alone are worth it. Anyone from a small town will be able to relate, but this is a ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Feb 22 21:04:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 22 21:23:14 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 05:00:25 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 10:20:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon May 28 15:09:56 -0700 2007 Mon May 28 15:09:56 -0700 2007 Peyton Place was considered By today's standards, it did not seem quite as racy. The story takes place in the small town of Peyton Place, NH in the 1930's and 1940's. It is about the secrets and lies of the small town residents and the consequences of those secrets. The book reminde...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 15:44:40 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 09:49:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 14:32:22 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 12:07:39 -0700 2009
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The Plot: Ah it's a very winding plot...basically it's a soap opera style book that follows the lives of the residents in a New England village. Nearly every character major or minor has a story a...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 15:19:43 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 23:40:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Sun Apr 05 10:27:31 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 07:29:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 09:28:41 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 14:37:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 14:30:43 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 19:51:03 -0700 2008
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