Unbuttoning America: A Biography of Peyton Place
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Published in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, incest, female desire, and social injustice, it was consumed as avidly by readers as it was condemned by critics and the clergy. Its author, Grace Metalious, a housewife who grew up in poverty in a New Hampshire mill town and had aspired to be a writer from childhood, loosely based the novel's setting, characters, and incidents...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:080145364X
ISBN13:9780801453649
Release Date:May 2015
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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