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Dale Peck
First children’s book by award-wining adult author Dale Peck Brilliantly realised literary fantasy
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The 34 works gathered here are formally inventive yet tightly controlled, morally charged by newly politicized notions of identity but fraught with anxiety about a body whose fragility had been…
The first novel in 10 years by critically acclaimed author Dale Peck is a coming-of-age story about Judas, a gay teenager in the south.
Celebrated author Peck presents a beautifully written page-turner of a literary thriller. This mesmerizing tale imagines a complete parallel universe filled with shockingly dark corners where the secrets of human…
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The first novel in 10 years by critically acclaimed author Dale Peck is a coming-of-age story about Judas, a gay teenager in the southern states.
A brilliant, fugue-like and ultimately heartrending story of love and survival at the height of the AIDS crisis
A bracing phillippic which proposes that contemporary literature is at a dead end. With swinging critiques of the work of, among others, Sven Birkets, David Foster Wallace, Philip Roth and…
Novelist Dale Peck attacks the contemporary canon of fiction for writing bad prose without content. In one savage review after another, Peck contends that current contemporary fiction is heir to…
A lyrical, haunting story of love, loss, and the redemptive powers of art journeys inside the marriage of Beatrice and Henry, the parents of two children, Susan and John, characters…
Originally published under the title, What we lost; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
21-year-old James Ramsay discovers he’s inherited a New York City building upon the death of his mother, who disappeared from his life shortly after his first birthday. James is faced…
The introduction of two disillusioned New Yorkers into a community divided by race triggers a brutal string of events, all linked to dark secrets of long ago. NPR feature.
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, i.e…
The first collection of short fiction from acclaimed novelist Dale Peck.
Dedicated to the memory of Richard G Forbis, this collection of papers presented by his students and colleagues represents a tribute to a pioneer and legend in Alberta archaeology. It…
