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Title: It's Not Better Than Peyton Place
Review: But in a way, it is similar. Beginning in Canada, and moving down to NH (if I remember correctly), the main characters each have their say. It begins with a husband, who to deal with a wife who won't sleep with him, becomes an alcoholic. He dies from this, thus leaving his beloved daughter to be raised by her cleanliness-obsessed mother. It's interesting the way she describes him: keeping a bottle under his bed, and throwing up every morning. Metalious died a year after this book was published, of cirrhosis of the liver.Almost everyone in the book is mean and out for number one. You think the final character has perhaps won out, but then her husband has to actually speak, and he's childish and disgusting.
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