Treat yourself to this rediscovered classic. 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 Generation’s Perfect Storm and predecessors to the women’s liberation movement. Peyton Place, the small, seemingly respectable New England town, is revealed as a vividly realistic cauldron of secrets and scandal. At home, the rest of the most controversial characters in 1950s American fiction continue to create a stir in this ongoing exposé of sex, hypocrisy, social inequity, and class privilege in contemporary America. Return to Peyton Place Overview Synopsis Credits Film Details Trivia Notes Brief Synopsis When one of the denizens of a small New England town writes a book-a slightly cloaked depiction of her hometown-she unleashes the wrath of her fellow townsfolk. In 1959 the sizzling sequel, Return to Peyton Place, picked up where Peyton Place left off: Allison MacKenzie, now the author of America’s #1 bestseller, is thrown into the glamorous whirl of the smart set of New York and Hollywood. Experience love, loyalty, and betrayal with Grace Metaliouss Peyton Place and Return to Peyton Place.Peyton PlaceIn the small New England town of Peyton.
An NBC daytime soap opera, titled Return to Peyton Place, ran from 1972 to 1974, and the franchise was rounded out with two made-for-television movies, which aired in 19.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.
The original 1956 novel was adapted again in 1964, in what became a wildly successful prime time television series for 20th Century Fox Television that ran until 1969, and the term "Peyton Place" an allusion to any small town or group that holds scandalous secrets entered into the American lexicon. Twentieth Century-Fox adapted it as a major motion picture in 1957, and Metalious wrote a follow-up novel that was published in 1959, called Return to Peyton Place, which was also filmed in 1961 using the same title. The novel spawned a franchise that would run through four decades. It sold 60 000 copies within the first ten days of its release and remained on the New York Times best seller list for 59 weeks. Metalious' Peyton Place describes how three women are forced to come to terms with their identity, both as women and as sexual beings, in a small, conservative, gossipy New England town, with recurring themes of hypocrisy, social inequities and class privilege in a tale that includes incest, abortion, adultery, lust and murder. A superior example, not common in this condition. Light rubbing, near fine in a fine dust jacket. First edition of this landmark in twentieth-century American popular culture, which spawned a successful feature film and a long-running television series-the first prime-time soap opera.
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