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Remarried. Grace Metalious, 35, lusty chronicler of the deflowering of modern New England (Peyton Place); and George Metalious, 35, her first husband and father of her three children, who is now guidance director of a Martha's Vineyard, Mass, high school; at Elkton, Md.. only a day after...
THE TIGHT WHITE COLLAR (288 pp.)-Grace Metalious - Julian Messner ($3.95).
Novelist Metalious' latest effort, again designed to prove that New England is a place where people can get into trouble with their skis off, bears the same relation to her first two books that a B-girl does to a prostitute: its implied promise is sex in return for...
Students of her art will remember that Novelist Metalious interleaved the gummier passages of her first book with hearty descriptive exercises celebrating the passage of the seasons among the granite hills, and that in the second book all this rhetoric was removed. The excision not only left the characters squirming...
What remains is a scrawny tale about a young schoolteacher who tries to get hired in a nasty town called Cooper's Landing, but succeeds only in being cuckolded. Every so often the author introduces another character and halts all action for a couple of chapters while she tells...