Word: metaliouses
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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PEYTON PLACE (372 pp.)-Grace Metalious-Julian Messner ($3.95).
A month before this book's publication, Boston papers broke into a rash of headlines: SPICY BOOK HAS NEW HAMPSHIRE TOWN AGOG. The town: Gilmanton (pop. 750). The book's author: Novelist Grace Metalious, 32, plump, ponytailed, blue-jeaned wife of the principal of Gilmanton's grammar...
No wonder. Every character in Peyton Place, from the gallused bench-sitters on Elm Street to the assured local mill owner, has a lurid history that John O'Hara's characters might envy. Novelist Metalious suggests that sex is never long out of the town's mind...
But when Authoress Metalious is not all flustered by sex, she captures a real sense of the tempo, texture and tensions in the social anatomy of a small town. Her ear for local speech is unflinching down to the last four-letter word, and her characters have a sort of...