This portrait of a marriage across the decades is “an astonishing work of emotional wisdom” (The New York Times). Beatrice and Henry -- the parents of the protagonist of Dale Peck’s debut novel, Martin and John -- are first drawn togethe...
“An utterly gripping thriller . . . and a highly sophisticated piece of literary legerdemain” from the Lambda Award"winning author of Night Soil (The New York Times). When the five hundreth person they know dies of AIDS, C...
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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...
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"[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
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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...
A man inherits a valuable piece of Manhattan real estate, leading to unexpected consequences, in this “strange and wonderful novel” (Joseph O’Neill, author of Netherland). James Ramsay is twenty-one years old and he has just inherited a ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...