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NO ADAM IN EDEN by Grace Metalious. 312 pages. Trident Press. $4.95.
The cute little intimacies that filled the pages of Peyton Place took on a special piquancy via hints that Author Grace Metalious had merely written about her own domestic career up in lustful, hypocritical, murderous New England. The sequels that followed prolonged the speculation; if they weren't written...
This time Metalious has foxed rumormongers by creating a cast of characters that couldn't be anybody. She traces the roots of their wretchedness to a neighborhood of Quebec that could have been invented only by a writer eager to fix Canada's wagon for banning Peyton Place...
What makes a sleazy novel sell a million copies? "Sex," the alert student replies instantly. But the answer, while largely true, does not entitle him to go to the head of the class. If a bestseller listing could be assured merely by the presence in a novel of enough undressed...
There is some doubt that the law will be changed, however. The divorce business is bringing a lot of money into Alabama, even though the lawyers (who average $250 on an ordinary case) get most of the take. But some observers can see other advantages. After all, TV's...