Cuando vi como describían esta novela y la pinta que tenia, supe que tenia que leerlo. Y es de estas novelas que te llaman aunque hayan sido publicadas hace tiempo. Metalious's other novels sold well but not as well as her first. Return to Peyton Place (1959) was followed by The Tight White Collar (1961) and No Adam in Eden (1963). [6] Death [ edit ] This was her inspiration for the plot of a novel about the seedy underbelly of small town life. As her marriage disintegrated, she worked on The Tree and the Blossom, the novel that would be renamed Peyton Place by the astute editor who bought it. This is a most interesting book. I remember seeing Peyton Place on TV as a child .. I think, perhaps, my mother was addicted to the series. When I received this book, I thought it was going to be something wholly different. As such, I am not disappointed at all. La novela explora temas como el despertar sexual, el incesto, el aborto, el odio de clase, el racismo, las relaciones extramatrimoniales, el fanatismo religioso, la corrupción policiaca o la violencia de género, y lo hace sin medias tintas, haciendo que la lectura resulte adictiva ya que por momentos te parece estar escuchando a una persona contándote los trapos sucios del vecino.

When Selena turns 14 years old, Lucas begins to abuse her, impregnating her and leaving local doctor Matthew Swain in a troublesome situation in which he decides to perform an abortion. The doctor makes Lucas leave town, and after she discovers this, Nellie commits suicide by hanging. Peyton Placeis set in a small New England town where everyone knows everyone’s business. The inhabitants of Peyton Place seemed to have a lot more sex than other novels of the mid-fifties – more than the censors and many critics were prepared to put up with: the novel was banned in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1957 and in Rhode Island in 1959.

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It's well-written with numerous facts I had never heard. How different people were in those days compared with today. I couldn't help but wonder how the small-town people would have reacted to something like ... 50 Shades. This is a great book for any true crime aficionado. It's a short read .. I was so engrossed I read it in one sitting. A pesar de tener un reparto coral con gran cantidad de personajes, en ningún momento uno se siente perdido, ya que todos ellos están fantásticamente caracterizados, incluso los más secundarios. En mi opinión, uno de los puntos fuertes de la obra es cómo están representados aquellos personajes femeninos que se alejan de aquello que se esperaba de las mujeres en los años 30 y 40, como Selena y Allison, y cuyos comportamientos y actitudes de mujeres fuertes e independientes escuecen a más de uno.

In many ways, Peyton Place anticipated the wave of women’s novels that would come in the 1960s, explorations of the confines of femininity and domesticity and envelope-pushing meditations on sexuality and the politics of “women’s liberation.” Peyton Place was not political in any direct sense, but it did serve as probing account of gender and class complexities in a small town. As Thomas Mallon wrote in a 2014 piece on what it’s like to read Peyton Place now, the book “is at its best when the author gives us portraits of women with a moment to themselves, reflective, solitary stretches in which we glimpse Mary Kelley, a hospital nurse who secretively assists with an abortion; Elsie Thornton, a spinster schoolteacher; and Nellie Cross, an abused wife who presents herself in a Molly Bloom-like monologue just before committing suicide.” Though not concerned with women’s emancipation per se, the novel was clearly invested in making visible — and even sympathetic — many of the most stigmatized forms of female anguish. Once when asked if Peyton Place would stand the test of time, Grace said she didn’t think so, but as the structure of society has changed so has the way people now look at her work. Harmon threw his newspaper down on the floor and pounded the fist of one hand into the palm of the other. … “I’m not going to sweat blood at the mill to send him to college if this is the way he’s going to behave,” said Harmon. Pocos libros consiguen esa inmersión y aunque en ciertas partes me ha revuelto un poco, es una lectura que se ha ganado mi corazón lector a pulso y un puesto en My Century of Books de 1956. Peyton Place es de esas lecturas que no se olvidan. The book’s massive success coincided with the end of Grace’s marriage and a tough time for her children who were taunted and shunned. Locals were outraged at what they perceived as having their dirty linen aired in public.Las ciudades pequeñas son conocidas por su memoria privilegiada y su lengua afilada” como resumen de lo que encontramos en esta novela publicada en 1956. Entonces causó un tremendo revuelo y escándalo en Estados Unidos por la variedad de temas oscuros e incómodos (y no por ello menos reales y habituales), que encierran sus páginas. Pero es que… ¿a quién le gusta que digan verdades a la cara? Especialmente cuando esas verdades son lo peor de uno mismo. The novel spawned a franchise that would run through four decades. 20th Century-Fox adapted it as a movie in 1957, and Metalious wrote a follow-up novel that was published in 1959, titled Return to Peyton Place, which became a film in 1961 using the same name. The original 1956 novel was adapted again in 1964, in what became a prime time television series for 20th Century Fox Television that ran until 1969, and the term "Peyton Place" entered the American lexicon describing any small town or group that holds scandalous secrets. [2] A primera vista Peyton Place parece un pueblo bonito y tranquilo…hasta que levantas las alfombras y se revela toda la mierda que escondían debajo. Secretos y rumores que sus habitantes están más que dispuestos a difundir y seguir perpetuando; donde todos hablan de todos aún sin saber (¿de qué me suena esto? 🤔); con hambre de escándalos, ya que subrayar defectos y errores ajenos hace que los propios no parezcan para tanto; y donde el que se sale de la norma establecida es señalado y ridiculizado, la mayor parte de las veces por envidia y falta de coraje para hacer lo mismo por parte del que señala. Since this is not nearly as scandalous as its reputation implies, the question becomes: is there a reason to read Peyton Place?

Nevler would go on to spend 26 years at Fawcett Publications, becoming the publisher of Fawcett Books and also launching Crest Books. Fox, Margalit (December 15, 2005). "Leona Nevler, Editor, Dies at 79; Shepherded Peyton Place". The New York Times. Many of Metalious’s characters initially present as archetypes. Her gift is in giving them multiple dimensions. I think it is a testament to her talent that – with the exception of Doc Swain, with his flexible ethics – there isn’t a single person in Peyton Place that I totally and thoroughly liked. Everyone is flawed, or damaged, or somehow twisted by life. Some are able to overcome this. Others are not.

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Of French-Canadian ancestry, she was born Marie Grace De Repentigny in Manchester, New Hampshire. Her parents separated when she was ten years old. From the original review by Luise Putcamp, Jr., in the Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner, October 7, 1956: After the publication of Peyton Place Grace Metalious would never again have a quiet respectable family life. The novel brought her fame, a sort of infamy really, and a fortune. Those things brought the kinds of hangers-on that often show up when someone has had a sudden stroke of good fortune such as a large inheritance or winning the lottery. The little girl who had wanted everything and wanted it all the time, the girl who was married and tied down with children while still a teenager, suddenly had money and free time and lots of new friends who wanted her to share both with them. A party began that never really slowed down or ended. Peyton Place became shorthand for secret scandals, mostly involving sex. Its author, Grace Metalious, was a New Hampshire schoolteacher’s wife whose own scandals were anything but secret. She was a mother of three and, by all accounts, a lousy housewife who drank, swore, wore baggy jeans and cheated on her husband. There, Grace Metalious died from cirrhosis of the liver on February 25, 1964. She was only thirty-nine years old. Her children subsequently successful challenged the will, but there was little left to distribute.

Con Peyton Place, Grace Metalious consiguió enfrentar a la sociedad norteamericana con sus miserias, hablando sin tapujos, en esta historia en la que los secretos y el miedo a ser revelados constituyen el epicentro de los conflictos éticos y morales a los que deben hacer frente sus personajes. This is really a shame, but fortunately the book has been re-evaluated by scholars and contemporary cultural critics. “ The Forgotten Legacy of Grace Metalious and Peyton Place” is an excellent place to begin.The Tight White Collar (1960) and No Adam in Eden (1963) failed to have the same impact, though they have been the subjects of contemporary reconsideration. I don't mean to cause any offense to people who grew up in the fifties, but in a way I'm glad that I didn't come of age then. It seems hard to understand the criticisms that were thrown at this book in that time. I agree with the author when she said "to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass." It was while living in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, where George was a principal, that Grace read about a girl who murdered her father after he sexually abused her repeatedly. She hid him in their farm’s sheep pen, thus earning the case national headlines as “The Sheep Pen Murder.” Anyone, she declared to herself, would be impressed with a man that size, with his almost revolting good looks and that smile that belongs in a bedroom. Peyton Place es una novela coral que nos acerca a una población ficticia pero que tiene mucho de Potter Place, donde la autora vivió algunos años. A partir de capítulos cortos, saltaremos de casa en casa, de ciudadano en ciudadano, de familia a familia, para conocer los secretos, anhelos, negocios, relaciones… que cada cual esconde lejos del resto, cuando cierra las puertas de su casa. (Consejito: si como yo eres malo con los nombres, te animo a que te hagas un croquis)