Tim Kring and Dale Peck, Crown, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-307-45345-7
At the start of this unsuspenseful alternative history thriller from TV screenwriter and producer Kring (Heroes) and Peck (Body Surfing), 1,963 people see an apparition of an oversized flaming boy in the Dallas sky at 11:22 a.m. on December 30, 2012.
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Dale Peck, Author . Houghton Mifflin $23 (229p) ISBN 978-0-618-25128-5
Accomplished novelist Peck's account of his father's horrific 1950s Long Island childhood is reminiscent of Angela's Ashes both in scope and tone. This stateside reincarnation of a world dominated by an abusive alcoholic father may not...
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Dale Peck, Author . New Press $23.95 (228p) ISBN 978-1-56584-874-0
New York novelist Peck has published four previous books (most recently a memoir, What We Lost
, in 2003), but none of them has achieved the notoriety of his acid reviews of contemporary fiction writers. Recently Heidi Julavits, co-editor of The...
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Dale Peck, Author . Bloomsbury $16.95 (420p) ISBN 978-1-58234-969-5
Although this story is set in 2001, the fabric of time itself fluctuates in Peck's (Martin and John
, for adults) thrilling debut novel for young people. Following the 9/11 attacks, Susan and her half-brothers, Charles and Murray (could the...
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Dale Peck, Author Atria $26 (417p) ISBN 978-1-4165-7612-9
Well-known for his eviscerating book reviews, Peck (Hatchet Jobs
) takes a stab at visceral horror in this sex-laden supernatural thriller set in upstate New York. Since time immemorial, a race of sexually voracious demons known as Mogran have “
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Dale Peck, Author Grijalbo Mondadori, S.A. - Mondadori $0 (440p) ISBN 978-84-397-0383-9
In 1998, Peck followed up two experimental novels with this more straightforward but still edgy offering, which features a gay couple fleeing AIDS-decimated New York for the uncertainties of Middle America.
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Dale Peck, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $21 (227p) ISBN 978-0-374-20311-5
With this poetic, tightly compressed novel, Peck makes a head-turning debut on the literary scene. It is composed of a feverish sequence of vignettes, which the reader gradually learns are the reminiscences of John, a gay man, as he tries to come to
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Dale Peck, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-18419-3
This lyrical and boldly constructed novel contains a powerful 50-page childhood reminiscence by a narrator named Dale Peck wedged into a bifurcated portrait of a tortured marriage. In his first novel, the well-received Martin and John, Peck used...
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Dale Peck. Soho, $25 (264p) ISBN 978-1-61695-780-3
This elegantly written sucker punch of a novel from Peck (Visions and Revisions) is told mostly by a tortured young man growing up in the shadow of his family’s racist, rapacious past. Judas Stammers lives with his eccentric mother, Dixie, a potter...
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Dale Peck. Soho, $16.99 trade paper (216p) ISBN 978-1-64129-082-1
Peck (Night Soil) writes beautifully about desire in his first story collection. Some stories border on the absurd in a comical way, especially the two that open the book, “Not Even Camping Is Like Camping Anymore,” about a wise-before-his-time five-
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