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Unbuttoning America: A Biography of Peyton Place

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Description for Unbuttoning America: A Biography of Peyton Place Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 13 black & white halftones, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 457.

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 on real-life places, people, and events. The novel sold more than 30 million copies in hardcover and paperback, and it was adapted into a hit ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801453649
SKU
V9780801453649
Shipping Time
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99-6

About Ardis Cameron
Ardis Cameron is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Southern Maine, and the author of Radicals of the Worst.

Reviews for Unbuttoning America: A Biography of Peyton Place
Unbuttoning America boasts a sizzling cover of a busty '50s pinup girl resting a blue book on her sleek, gartered legs while flashing the reader a come-hither-quick look.... Cameron teases out the book's significance as a bold exploration of sexual, political, gender and class questions rarely recognized in its time. For the general reader, the most rewarding parts of Cameron's ... Read more

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