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  1. Peyton Place revisited. 2,021 likes · 186 talking about this. This is all things Peyton Place, in particular, but not limited to, the 1964-69 TV-series.

  2. Peyton Place Revisited: With Mia Farrow, Ryan O'Neal, Barbara Parkins, Christopher Connelly.

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    • Mia Farrow, Ryan O'Neal, Barbara Parkins
    • The Lives of Three Women
    • Politics and Power
    • Doctor’S Diagnosis
    • From The Bar to Baptism
    • Small Town Sex

    The book centres on three women who overcome their personal and social circumstances and transform their lives. Constance MacKenzie, a self-styled widow, lives with the shame of having an illegitimate daughter, Allison, and lets her fear of sexual relationships and her obsession with maintaining respectable appearances influence the way she brings ...

    At least as interesting and at least as shocking as the women’s personal lives are the insights into Peyton Place politics. There is a caucus of power located in the Chestnut Street area. Top Dog is Leslie Harrington, who runs the town. He’s the owner of the mill, the chairman of the school board and also chair of the bank’s trustees. Nothing gets ...

    Doc Swain, general practitioner, is the nearest that the town has to a moral compass. He’s a physically imposing presence, with a thick head of silver hair which is his only vanity. He does house calls day and night and sends birthday cards to all the children he has delivered. In some respects he’s a poor person’s Atticus Finch, the lawyer in To K...

    There are many near-incidental grotesqueries which give the novel its particular flavour. Town drunk Kenny Stearns has six-week-long drinking lock-ins in his basement, one of which ends with Kenny hallucinating and putting an axe through his foot and Lucas Cross suffering a severe case of the DTs, emerging cursing and fighting off imaginary insects...

    And those sexy bits? Oh, they’re awful. And there’s sex where you least expect it. Take Norman Page and his mother. Their relationship makes your flesh creep. The boy’s name is eerily echoed in Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock’s film of Robert Bloch’s novel, published in 1959) where Norman, the eponymous owner of the Bates Motel, has a macabre relationship...

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  5. Peyton Place Revisited. William Morgan. July 1983. Download this article as a PDF. This article was originally published in a print issue of Places Journal: Volume 1, Issue 1. The entire print archive (1983–2009) is available in PDF format. Some campuses now witnessing protest against the war in Gaza are members of the Places academic network.

  6. Mar 19, 2014 · Peyton Place’ Revisited. To the Editor: I enjoyed the Bookends discussion about rereading “Peyton Place” (March 9). When I first approached publishers in the late 1990s about reissuing the...