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Peyton Place by Grace Metalious6/23/2023 Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. It inspired a film adaptation nominated for nine Oscars and network television’s first primetime soap, which once drew 60 million viewers three nights a week and helped launch the careers of Mia Farrow and Ryan O’Neal. Selling 100,000 copies in its first month and at least 12 million more later, the book was so popular that it entered The New York Times Best Seller list a week before it was published. Considered the nation’s first “blockbuster” book, the novel both shocked and secretly delighted readers with its portrayal of sex, secrets, scandal, and even adultery, incest, and abortion. Indeed, the phrase has been used as an expression for so long that it’s doubtful if any given user is even clear on the rich history of the fictional-but also very real-small New England town that makes up the novel of the same name by Grace Metalious, one of the most controversial and best-selling books ever published.įirst appearing in 1956, Peyton Place blew the lid off the hypocritical conformity of small-town, postwar America. In the current pop culture conscience, the words Peyton Placehave come to be associated with any small town or community in which sordid domestic scandals have been known to take place.
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