Peyton Place (Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England)
by Grace Metalious
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Author: Grace MetaliousContributor: Ardis Cameron
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-03-04
ISBN: 1555534007
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Northeastern
Book Reviews of Peyton Place (Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England)
Book Review: "Coining The Phrase"
Summary: 5 Stars
This novel has generated enough good reviews to do it justice here, so I will keep my remarks simple and short. I first read the book as a teenager, mostly because it was forbidden, and my curiosity was aroused. Then, not long ago, I drug it out again as I am prone to do in a nostalgic moment. The original story of "Small Town Everywhere" and it's closet full of seamy, steamy skeletons is still good, though it's shock value has been muted by time and it's inevitable changes in attitudes. Peyton Place deserves it's place in literature because it dared to challenge the status quo. (that may have gotten a little out of hand but it was needed at the time)
However, it also takes a powerful idea to result in a "coining of a phrase" that comes down over decades, perhaps centuries now - and this book certainly does that - and no one could have predicted it at the time. The words " A Peyton Place" are used where no other description is needed - human nature, even when denied and cloistered, veiled in hypocrisy will always triumph somehow in many different forms (though not always in the purest) though rarely openly, even today, if enough "political pride and position" are at stake.
Which may actually be a good thing, given the alternative.
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