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Peyton Place

by Metalious, Grace
Series: Peyton Place Book 1 Published by : Julian Messner Physical details: 372 p Year: 1956
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Considered scandalous it its time of publication, Peyton Place, stirred controversy with its explicit for the time depictions of sex and sins in a small New England town. Today, the once shocking novel and its sequel seem tame, and are taught in college English courses as classics of their time, well-written and honest in the evocation of the passions, jealousies, and secrets of small-town America.