Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bobblehead of Grace Metalious and a copy of “Peyton Place” A bobblehead of author Grace Metalious and a copy of “Peyton Place” ...

PEYTON PLACE (372 pp.)—Grace Metalious—Julian Messner ($3.95). A month before this book’s publication, Boston papers broke into a rash of headlines: SPICY BOOK HAS NEW HAMPSHIRE TOWN AGOG. The town: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In “Peyton Place,” Metalious wrote of societal hypocrisy, lifting the lid off a “small New England town” as the original book ...