As with the Peyton Place books, Metalious uses flashbacks or capsule histories to develop her characters and to move the story along. Unlike her previous novels, however, there is very little plot line on which to hang these minibiographies. They become the story itself. It is an interesting idea and allows the past to become an.....
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