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112 of 114 people found the following review helpful. "If I have lousy taste, I guess a lot of Americans must have lousy taste, too, because my book sold a million copies" - authorBy Allen SmallingPEYTON PLACE did indeed sell a million copies -- several millions by now -- and inspired a movie, a sequel, and a long-running television soap opera. The story of meek Allison McKenzie, growing up in the late Thirties in a hypocritical mill town in New England in the household of a demanding mother, fascinated many. Yes, some of the language is coarse, but it's naturally coarse language. Allison's friend, through no real fault of her own, gets involved in a legal wrangle about exactly the kind of things Peyton Place "doesn't talk about," which forms the moral and dramatic core of the book. PEYTON PLACE deserves to be read, even today, though I'd recommend skipping the Foreword because it gives too much of the plot away.3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. It's Hard To Believe This Was Written in 1956By EulogiaOne evening I watched the movie "Peyton Place" on TCM and became curious about the book it had been based upon. I remember the TV show (which I was never allowed to watch) when I was a child, and for a while it was all the rage. So when I searched .com for a copy of the book, I specifically wanted one published in 1956, preferably an old paperback. Luckily, there were several listed and I obtained one at a very reasonable price.The book is a bit different from the film. The film includes a few of the salacious story lines, but omits many of them. The film never addresses the shame the town had over its founder (a freed slave with the last name Peyton), and made heroes out of several of the town's cowards, such as Norman and Rodney.Allison MacKenzie is the centerpiece of the book and when we first meet her, she is a young girl with few friends and an over protective mother. Allison doesn't understand the reason her mother, Constance, is so stern with her is because of shame over her illegitimacy. Constance was never married to Allison's father and has been lying for years to everyone about being widowed. But as Allison begins to become a young woman, mother and daughter clash and the secret is exposed in a very ugly way."Peyton Place" also includes incest, abortion, rape, murder, suicide, lots of sex, voyeurism, sexual abuse, corruption, you name it. This novel must have been secretly passed around between the neighborhood moms in the 50's and perhaps gossiped about over glasses of iced tea or cups of coffee.The author, Grace Metalious, wrote a classic bit of Americana.The first paragraph reads:"Indian Summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle; she comes and goes as she pleases, so that one is never sure whether she will come at all nor for how long she will stay."In Northern New England, Indian Summer puts up a scarlet-tipped hand to hold winter back for a while. She brings with her the time of the last warm spell, an uncharted season until Winter moves in with its backbone of ice and accouterments of leafless trees and hard, frozen ground."Those grown old, who have had the youth bled from them by the jagged edged winds of winter, know sorrowfully that Indian Summer is a sham to be met with hard-eyed cynicism."But the young wait anxiously, scanning the chill autumn skies for a hint of her coming. And sometimes the old, against all the warnings of better judgment, wait with the young and hopeful, their tired winter eyes looking heavenward to seek the first traces of a false softening."Read "Peyton Place" and travel to this town, walk down its streets, smell the grass and flowers, watch the people walk down the streets to attend one of the two churches, and then watch them go back home to all the secrets behind closed doors.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Good sequelBy Frank Davis IIIIt was a good follow up to Peyton Place. Most of the characters are well rounded and we are able to re-visit with some of the originl Peyton Place characters. Some new characters are added but my interest was still in the people from the original book. This book seems to withstand the years and could be considered current in thought. There is a forward by Ardis Cameron who is an instructer at So. Maine University. It led me to purchase her book "Unbuttoning America." I also purchased The Tight White Collar by Grace.

Peyton Place is a literary masterpiece, brilliantly written, every word artfully crafted. It was made into a major motion picture in 1958, a long-running TV Series and several sequels and adaptations. This reprint includes a 30 page introduction and 11 screen shots from the first movie version of the book starring Lana Turner.

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