No surprise to me how " Peyton Place" author Grace Metalious died - of deadly alcoholism.I just read the lurid book of the post war era in small town USA. For me reading it was a rich experience because of MEMORY association not because it was a great novel. For the first one hundred pages I thought I might be reading the American equivalent of a Zola , Maupassant, Balzac classic. But as I passed the middle of the book there were too many fog of alcohol scenes that could only appeal to American middle class female soap opera fans steeped in petty bourgeois philistinism and the Culture of Narcissism and at the time in the famous Kinsey Report. But it did hold my interest even if I would not want to know the real life models of any of the town characters in Peyton Place. Not even dear young aspiring writer Alyison.
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