Peyton Place
Subtitle: and, Return to Peyton Place
By: Grace Metalious
Contributors: Metalious, Grace.
Publisher: Gramercy Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 622
Subjects: City and town life -- Fiction
Other titles: Peyton Place ; and, Return to Peyton Place; Return to Peyton Place.
Description: In 1956, a book was published that skyrocketed to the top of the bestseller lists and remained there for two years. It spawned an Academy Award nominated film, a prime time series, and a sequel in both book and film. Controversy surrounded the novel from the beginning- - its sexual openness, multi-layered portraits of small-town people leading small-town lives, the foibles, weaknesses, flaws of being human revealed glaringly- - all this in a page-turning read by a young woman from a small town in New Hamsphire.