Peyton Place (Novel)
The main plot follows the lives of three women - lonely and repressed Constance MacKenzie, her illegitimate daughter Allison, and her employee Selena Cross, a girl from “across the tracks” or as it is called in the book “from the shacks” - and how they come to terms with their identity as women [...]

Pierre Macherey, “A Theory of Literary Production” (textbook)
The book proposes nothing less than a new way of reading, which, for Macherey, is not about the reproduction of a meaning that already exists and merely lies waiting to be discovered by the critic. Traditional criticism, he notes, has a “tendency to slide into the natural fallacy [...]