2 Novels by Dale Peck
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Overview: Dale Peck is the author of twelve books in a variety of genres, including Martin and John, The Law of Enclosures, and Sprout. His fiction and criticism have appeared in dozens of publications, and have earned him two O. Henry Awards, a Pushcart Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. He lives in New York City, where he has taught in The New School’s Graduate Writing Program since 1999.
Genre: Fiction > Literary Fiction
The Garden of Lost and Found: On the death of the mother he never knew, twenty-one-year-old James Ramsay inherits a brownstone in New York City. For the past two years he’s lived on his own in Kansas, where he has had bimonthly liaisons with Trucker, a fifty-five-year-old traveling salesman. Just before James learns of his mother’s death, Trucker tells him that he has infected him with HIV. Confused and shaken, James takes up residence in the five-story brownstone with an elderly woman, Nellydean. The building’s lot is worth millions, but the estate is cash poor, and James is faced with a choice: sell the property–and turn Nellydean out of the only home she’s known for the past forty years–or attempt to stave off the mounting tide of taxes that will cause him to forfeit his only connection to a mother he never knew. The a chance encounter lands James on the cover of the New York Post, which in turn brings two new people into his life: Knute Lingon, a forty-year-old former ad exec moonlighting as a reporter, and Claudia MacTeer, Nellydean’s niece, who is looking for a new home for herself and her unborn child. The strange threesome become entangled in a web of sexual, familial, and financial complications over which hangs the specter of 9/11. A hallucinatory, lyrical, and often darkly hilarious portrait of 21st-century America.
Greenville: 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 New York. There he begins to thrive, finding real love and connection with his Uncle Wallace and Aunt Bess. But he is ultimately unable to outrun the chaos and violence of his old life.
A virtuoso work of great empathy and originality, Greenville is Peck’s most heartfelt and haunted novel to date.
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