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  • Visions and Revisions

    Coming of Age in the Age of AIDs

    by Dale Peck ...
    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 period between 1987, when the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) was founded, and 1996, when the advent of combination therapy transformed AIDS from a virtual death sentence into a chronic manageable illness ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sprout

    by Dale Peck ...
    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 unexpected place, it proves impossible to hold. An incredible, literary story of a boy who knows he's gay, and the town that seems to have no place for ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • What Burns

    by Dale Peck ...
    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.In “Bliss,” a young man befriends the convicted felon who murdered his mother when he was only a ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Garden of Lost and Found

    by Dale Peck ...
    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 brownstone near the World Trade Center, whose only other tenant is an elderly black woman named Nellydean. James is immediately faced with a choice: sell the ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Now It's Time to Say Goodbye

    by Dale Peck ...
    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 Americans descended from the town’s founders and Caucasians who buy up more of the town’s land with each passing year. But within weeks of relocating, they ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Martin and John

    by Dale Peck ...
    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 remain the same, their identities are constantly shifting, creating a fractured view of loss and desire in the early years of the AIDS crisis. Vaulting ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Sprout

    by Dale Peck ...
    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 Kansas is not quite as empty as he thought it was going to be.An incredible, literary story of a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Greenville

    by Dale Peck ...
    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 ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Lost Cities

    A Drift House Voyage

    by Dale Peck ...
    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 each other again. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Law of Enclosures

    by Dale Peck ...
    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 battling a brain tumor that he believes will soon claim his life. But forty years later they’re still a couple, in a story that moves from Long Island to the Finger ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Night Soil

    by Dale Peck ...
    **"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 from Lambda Award-winning author Dale Peck.**A century and a half of family secrets are written ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Body Surfing

    A Novel

    by Dale Peck ...
    From one of America's most acclaimed writers, a startling and visionary novel about a race of demons who inhabit humans and wreak havoc on the lives of two small-town boys.In a small town in upstate New York, best friends Q. and Jasper live typical high school lives filled with parties and girls. When Q. starts acting recklessly, defacing lockers and misusing Bunsen burners, Jasper thinks his ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD