Unbuttoning America: A Biography of Peyton Place

by Ardis Cameron

Book Overview

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501775979
• ISBN13: 9781501775970
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher