Dale Peck

• Nov-2019
• / Romance

The first collection of short fiction from Lambda Awardâ€"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...

• Aug-2018
• / Literary

Family secrets, sexual explorations, art world wealth, and legacies of racism and environmental destruction collide in the new novel from Lambda Award-winning author Dale Peck The art world falls in love with Dixie Stammers when it is discovered ...

• Jun-2016
• / General Fiction

In "The Soho Press Book of '80s Short Fiction," editor Dale Peck offers readers a fresh take on a seminal period in American history, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Cold War was rushing to its conclusion, and literature was searching for ways ...

• Mar-2015
• / General 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...

• Jun-2009
• / General Fiction

When Sprout and his father move from Long Island to 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 unex...

• Feb-2009
• / Horror

Best friends Q. and Jasper live typical high school lives filled with parties and girls--until a sinister force possesses Q., and his behavior takes a decidedly dark turn. Halfway around the world, Ileana Magdalen, an elite hunter, is on a mission to...

• Sep-2007
• / General Fiction

The Garden of Lost and Found tells the story of James Ramsay, a 21-year-old man who discovers upon the death of his estranged mother that he’s inherited a building in New York City. James takes up residence at No. 1 Dutch Street, a five-story brown...

• Aug-2007
• / General Fiction

When a tidal wave washes Susan, Uncle Farley, and their house out on the Sea of Time-leaving Charles behind with only a parrot for company-the intrepid Oakenfeld children will travel from a Viking colony in Greenland to the Tower of Babel to find eac...

• Nov-2006
• / Fantasy

A Book Sense Children's Pick

"[A] thrilling debut novel for young people . . . Readers will flip madly through the many pages . . . to see how the siblings navigate the hazards on the Sea of Time." -Publishers Weekly, starred review

"B...

• Aug-2006
• / General Fiction

Dale Peck’s debut is a tour de force in which Martin and John find each other again and again: in a trailer park, a high-end jewelry store, a Kansas barn, and later, in New York City, living under the shadow of the AIDS epidemic. Though their names...

• Nov-2003
• / General Fiction

The critically acclaimed author of Now It's Time to Say Goodbye offers a thoughful biography of his father's tumultuous childhood and youth, describing his childhood in a poverty-stricken Long Island home with an abusive mother and alcoholic ...

• May-1998
• / Horror

When the 500th person they know dies of AIDS, Colin and Justin flee New York City. They end up in Galatia, a Kansas town founded by freed slaves in the wake of the Civil War whose population is now divided, evenly but uneasily, between African Americ...

• Jan-1996
• / General Fiction

Dale Peck’s second novel offers a searing, nuanced portrait of a marriage across the decades. Beatrice and Henry -- the parents of the protagonist of Peck’s debut novel, Martin and John -- are first drawn together when the teenaged Henry is battl...