books.google.com - When Grace Metalious's debut novel about the dark underside of a small, respectable New England town was published in 1956, it quickly soared to the top of the bestseller lists. A landmark in twentieth-century American popular culture, Peyton Place spawned a successful feature film and a long-running...http://books.google.com/books/about/Pleyton_place.html?id=qLqGDmjR0v4C&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePleyton place