Looking for Peyton Place : a novel / Barbara Delinsky.
For Annie Barnes, going home to Middle River means dealing with truths long hidden, some of which she buried there herself. But it is a journey she knows she must take if she is to put to rest, once and for all, her misgivings about her mother's recent death. To an outsider, Middle River is a picture-perfect New Hampshire town. But Annie grew up there, and she knows all its secrets -- as did her idol Grace Metalious, author of the infamous novel Peyton Place, which laid a small town's sexual secrets bare for all the world to see. Though Grace actually lived in a nearby town, the residents of Middle River have always believed she used them as the model for her revolutionary novel, and some even insist Annie's grandmother was the model for one of Grace's most scandalous characters. With these rumors and whispers about Peyton Place haunting her childhood, Annie came to identify so closely with the author that it was Grace and her bold rebellion against 1950s conformity that inspired Annie to get out of Middle River and make a life for herself in Washington, D.C.
Record details
- ISBN: 0743246446
- ISBN: 9780743246446
- Physical Description: vii, 358 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, [2005]
- Copyright: ©2005
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Afterword, a note from the publisher, pages 355-358.
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- 67 of 69 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
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| Mars Hill Library | FIC DEL (Text) | 30229150109360 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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