Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
Switch off those TVs, kill your mobiles and settle down with the most controversial book ever written. Once denounced as 'wicked', 'sordid', 'cheap' 'moral filth', PEYTON PLACE was the top read of its time and sold millions of copies worldwide. Way before TWIN PEAKS, SURVIVOR or BIG BROTHER, the curtains were twitching in the mythical New England town of Peyton Place, and this soapy story exposed the dirty secrets of 1950s small-town America: incest, abortion, adultery, repression and lust. Take a peek ...
'Sinclair Lewis would no doubt have hailed Grace Metalious as a sister-in-arms against the false fronts and bourgeois pretentions of allegedly respectable communities' New York Times Book Review
Grace Metalious was born in a French-Canadian ghetto in New Hampshire in 1924. She wrote three other novels and died of cirrhosis of the liver at age 39.
| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9781860499296 |
| ISBN 10 | 1860499295 |
| Titel | Peyton Place |
| Autor | Grace Metalious |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2002-07-04 |
| Seitenanzahl | 512 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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