Peyton Place by Grace Metalious (Simon & Schuster, 1956)Continuing on last week's theme of Franco-Americans in New Hampshire the book for this week is a novel that has sold over 10 million copies and inspired a film and a television series and generated a storm of controversy around a young woman of French heritage living in a small New Hampshire town.
There are newer editions of this book, including one from Gramercy Books (1999) that includes the sequel Return to Peyton Place, but the stark quality of the cover of this edition seems to me to suit the novel better than the more cheerful small town images that have been used on newer editions.
To learn more about the life of Grace Metalious check out the article on page 4 of the Fall 2006 issue of Book Notes and for a discussion of this book listen to NHPR's Granite State Stories on Friday, June 8.
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