Return to Peyton Place
By Grace Metalious — With an Introduction by Ardis Cameron
The sizzling sequel reissued with a new introduction that situates Metalious within the cultural politics of postwar America.
An overview.
Grace Metalious's sequel to her phenomenally successful Peyton Place returns readers to the secrets, scandals, and hidden lives of a small New England town. First published in 1959, the novel continues the saga of Allison MacKenzie and the residents whose private struggles, ambitions, and desires shaped one of the defining popular fictions of midcentury America.
This Northeastern University Press edition is reissued with a new introduction by Ardis Cameron, drawing on her years of archival research and interviews to place the novel in the broader cultural and political context of the postwar United States — and to recover Metalious's voice as a serious chronicler of American womanhood.
