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Chargement... Peyton Place, v. 1 (1957)par Grace Metalious
![]() » 20 plus 1950s (126) Page Turners (57) Overdue Podcast (204) Favourite Books (1,247) Best books read in 2011 (152) Small Town Fiction (32) New England Books (39) Female Author (733) Five star books (1,257) Books in Riverdale (64) Discontinued (5) Books Read in 2011 (250) Nifty Fifties (94) Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Pretty risqué for the 1950s, but a useful book for understanding society. ( ![]() 8475303420 The parts I liked most about Peyton Place was the detail about the New England Upper Connecticut River Valley life. I could very much relate to the places since White River (Junction), the "town" that is directly across the Connecticut, in Vermont, is in the same county as the one I grew up in. However, I get the unsettling feeling Metalious wanted to upset the people living here more than anything. The things I disliked most about the book was there were too many characters for a novel that was only about 350 pages and the focus character switched too much. Also, I found the last chapter unsatisfying with a somewhat selfishness to it, right after the dramatic court case which was very progressive for a book written in the 1950's. It's more a good trashy soap opera than a good nighttime drama, in my opinion. Another major problem I had with the book was the excessive, and only why, she descried a free black slave using the worst word a white person could say (note: Samuel Peyton was the only non-white person even mention and he wasn't even an actual charter). Peyton Place (Virago Modern Classics) by Grace Metalious (2002) Details the lives of three women mainly, along with various other characters, living in a small New England town in the late 1930s-early 1940s. It was banned many times over for its sexual content, and while I suspect it was fairly salacious for its time, it's pretty tame now. That doesn't make the story any less interesting or well told, though. I enjoyed how all the characters - well drawn, to a one - interacted and influences each other's lives, and while the book is arguable not high literature, I thought it was a great read.
Peyton Place has something over its heirs. It takes us to that time when there were still sordid secrets; when there were still boundaries to be broken; when something could still sneak up behind you and give you a fast and dirty shock. Appartient à la sériePeyton Place (1) Appartient à la série éditorialePan Books (M261) rororo (406-407) Virago Modern Classics (480) Est contenu dansA inspiréDistinctionsNotable Lists
Etats-Unis, ann es 40. Peyton Place est une petite ville de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, aux apparences tranquilles. Le paysage est en r alit moins glorieux: derri re les fa ades proprettes des demeures victoriennes ou celles plus v tustes des maisons des faubourgs, de nombreux drames se jouent. Dans les beaux quartiers, la jeune Allison ignore tout du secret qui entoure sa naissance et du pass sulfureux de sa m re, la belle et froide Constance McKenzie. Tout ce qui lui importe pour le moment est l'amiti de la jolie Selena Cross, issue des taudis de la ville et qui subit les violences d'un beau-p re alcoolique... Chronique au vitriol d'une petite ville am ricaine, o la condition des femmes est sans cesse bafou e, Peyton Place fit scandale lorsqu'il parut en 1956. Jug vulgaire, amoral, vicieux ou encore ind cent, le roman - auquel l'on accorda tout de m me d'ind niables qualit s litt raires - connut cependant un engouement sans pr c dent, puisque 60 000 exemplaires furent vendus en peine dix jours pour atteindre quelque 10 millions aujourd'hui. Le cin ma s'en empara d s sa parution, puis, en 1964 une adaptation en s rie t l vis e, avec Mia Farrow et Ryan O'Neal, vit le jour. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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