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Greenville by Dale Peck
Category: Fiction
In this novel based on real events, Dale Peck takes on the childhood of his father, Dale Peck Sr. Raised in poverty with seven brothers and sisters in suburban Long Island, terrorized by an abusive mother, Dale Sr.'s life changes when his alcoholic father dumps him at his uncle's dairy farm in upstate N ...Show more
Martin and John (Fucking Martin) by Dale Peck
Category: Fiction
Dale Peck’s debut is a tour de force of shifting identities in which Martin and John find each other again and again: in a trailer park, a highend jewelry store, a Kansas barn, and later, in New York City, living under the shadow of the AIDS epidemic. Though their names remain the same, their identities ...Show more
Night Soil by Dale Peck
Category: Fiction
"You'd think it has been done before but it really hasn't--the perfectly crafted, haunting and heartbreaking, raw, funny, unblinking yet merciful art novel."--Marlon JamesFamily secrets, sexual explorations, art world wealth, and legacies of racism and environmental destruction collide in the new novel ...Show more
Sprout by Dale Peck
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Drift House Chronicles
When Sprout and his father move from Long Island to the midst of rural Kansas after the death of his mother, he is sure he will find no friends, no love, no beauty. But friends find him, the strangeness of the landscape fascinates him, and when love shows up in an unexpected place, Sprout realises that ...Show more
The First Voyage (Drift House #1) by Dale Peck
Category: Fiction
A long low rumble of thunder vibrated the house from top to bottom, as if it could shake the whole crooked structure out to sea ... When Susan and her younger brothers Charles and Murray, are sent to stay with their eccentric uncle Farley in Canada, little do they realise that they are stepping into the ...Show more
The Garden of Lost and Found by Dale Peck
Category: Fiction
In the fourth volume of the Gospel Harmonies, a young man inherits a building in New York City upon the death of his mother. Before long he is caught in a web of sexual, familial and financial complications, over which hangs the spectre of 9/11.
The Lost Cities: A Drift House Voyage by Dale Peck
Category: Children's | Series: Drift House Chronicles
The incredible adventures through time continue for Susan, Charles and Murray in this second instalment of the "Drift House" stories. Susan and Charles return to Uncle Farley's house for what they are sure will be the most exciting summer of their lives, and can't wait to learn more of Drift House's sec ...Show more
Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDS by Dale Peck
Category: Biography Memoir
Novelist and critic Dale Peck's latest work, part memoir, part extended essay, is a foray into what the author calls 'the second half of the first half of the AIDS epidemic'. Reminiscent of Joan Didion's The White Album and Kurt Vonnegut's Palm Sunday, Visions and Revisions has been assembled from over ...Show more
What Burns: Stories by Dale Peck
Category: Fiction
The first collection of short fiction from Lambda Award-winning novelist Dale Peck spans twenty-five years of writing, including two O. Henry award-winners and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize The stories in What Burns examine the extremes of desire against a backdrop of family, class, and mortality. ...Show more
What We Lost: Based on a True Story by Dale Peck
Category: Travel Guides
Dale Peck, Sr. grew up extremely poor in rural Long Island in the 1950s, sharing a one-room house with seven brothers and sisters, an abusive mother, and an alcoholic father haunted by his past. At fourteen, he was essentially kidnapped by his father and taken to his uncle's farm in upstate New York, an ...Show more
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