Hay tantos personajes que es aquí donde esta lo importante de la novela, en sus diálogos, en sus historias, y obviamente vas a tener tus personajes favoritos con sus historias y personajes que vas a odiar, pero incluso los que odias vas a querer enterarte de sus historia. Toth, Emily (1981). Inside Peyton Place: The Life of Grace Metalious. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p.96. ISBN 978-1-60473-631-1. Los capítulos de la novela son cortos, y cada uno se centra en alguno de los personajes principales, y así ir contándonos su secreto, porque todos tienen algo que ocultar y te atrapará hasta saber que narices esta pasando. Algo que me llama mucho, es que el narrador sea omnisciente, ya que te vas a enterar de todo lo que pasa en este pueblo sin perder ni un tipo de detalle.

Peyton Place es una novela coral que nos acerca a una población ficticia pero que tiene mucho de Potter Place, donde la autora vivió algunos años. A partir de capítulos cortos, saltaremos de casa en casa, de ciudadano en ciudadano, de familia a familia, para conocer los secretos, anhelos, negocios, relaciones… que cada cual esconde lejos del resto, cuando cierra las puertas de su casa. (Consejito: si como yo eres malo con los nombres, te animo a que te hagas un croquis) women suffered similar abuse when everything is supposed to be so wonderful and happy for girls and women. It was also interesting to read how her punishment for the crime was carried out. My name is Barbara Roberts. I live with [my boyfriend’s mother] at Ashland. I understand that I do not have to talk and that anything I say may be used against me. This statement is made voluntarily without any promise having been made.

Grace Metalious

Los capítulos cortos y centrados en diferentes personajes hacen que la lectura resulte más dinámica y consiguen que la representación que se hace de Peyton Place sea mucho más vívida ya que nos permite conocer diferentes voces, guste más o menos aquello que dicen.

Several characters and events were drawn from events in nearby towns and people that Metalious actually knew. Selena Cross was based on Barbara Roberts, a 20-year-old girl from the village of Gilmanton Ironworks, who murdered her father Sylvester after years of sexual abuse and buried his body under a sheep pen. In the novel, Selena kills her stepfather because incest was considered too taboo for readers at the time. Metalious' editor Kitty Messner made the change, much to the author's dismay and disapproval. [5] Plot [ edit ] Estoy muy de acuerdo en que esta novela tuviera tanta polemica en el momento que se publico, la autora habla sin ningún tipo de tapujos de todo lo que quiere, aunque quizá ahora no nos resulte tan escandaloso, es entendible que en los años 50 tuviera esa repercusión. Her other novels, all of which sold well but never achieved the same success as her first, were Return to Peyton Place (1959), The Tight White Collar (1961) and No Adam in Eden (1963). Born Marie Grace DeRepentigny in Manchester, New Hampshire, on September 8, 1924, Grace was the daughter of Alfred and Laurette, both of whom were of French Canadian descent. Scholars and biographers alike allege that she was raised Franco-American, and that the primary language in her home growing up was French. But if you had asked Laurette, she would have never admitted to being French Canadian — prone to embellishments, a trait her daughter would surely inherit, Laurette was adamant that her family came from France. Indeed, at the time of Grace’s birth, Manchester was a segregated city: the west side was dubbed Petit Canada, the east was mainly populated by Irish and Greek immigrants, while the north was reserved for the homegrown Yankees who liked to look down on the supposed foreigners invading their land. As a result, Laurette wanted nothing to do with Petit Canada — thus her insistence and delusions of being from France.When Peyton Place by Grace Metalious was published in 1956, reviewers all over the country found the book scandalous yet hard to resist. The book was vilified in some quarters and banned in others, but that didn’t stop Americans from buying it in droves. Una historia que se cuece a fuego lento abarcando una década (años 30-40s), sin prisas, como el mejor de los guisos. Es así como se realzan los ingredientes y se consigue el sabor más sabroso, y Grace Metalius sabía lo que se hacía. Como quien no quiere la cosa, pieza a pieza, se va dando forma a un puzzle donde todo termina por encajar y sacar a la luz las vergüenzas de un lugar lleno de diferencias sociales que separan a unos de otros, racismo, corrupción… y temas tan escabrosos como el incesto. Al tiempo que vemos crecer (y envejecer) a los personajes, los vemos enamorarse, casarse, mentir, asesinar, cumplir sueños, fracasar, morir… I don't mean to cause any offense to people who grew up in the fifties, but in a way I'm glad that I didn't come of age then. It seems hard to understand the criticisms that were thrown at this book in that time. I agree with the author when she said "to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass." Grace and her novels, including The Tight White Collar and No Adam In Eden, are part of women’s study programs in some pretty lofty universities.