Dale Peck

America in 1963 is a country at a crossroads: Vietnam, the civil rights movement, the Cuban missile crisis, the sexual revolution, FBI, CIA, LSD and a promise of change offered by a new President, John F Kennedy. Some people believe in the future. Other conspire to control it.Chandler Forrestal is a man whose life is changed forever when he is unwittingly dragged into a CIA mind-control experiment. After being given a massive dose of LSD, Chandler develops a frightening array of mental powers. With his heightened perception he uncovers a plot to assassinate President Kennedy. Chased by the dark powers of world government, will Chandler be able to harness his Shift and rewrite history?

The incredible adventures through time continue for Susan, Charles and Murray in this second instalment of the "Drift House" stories. Susan and Charles return to Uncle Farley''s house for what they are sure will be the most exciting summer of their lives, and can''t wait to learn more of Drift House''s secrets. But things start off much sooner than they might think when a mighty tidal wave washes Drift House out to sea - with Susan and Farley on board, but Charles and the parrot, President Wilson, left behind in a tree. Separated by time and space, and beset by encounters with Vikings, Native Americans, the Trojan Horse and many other fascinating characters, this action-packed sequel to "Drift House" is both more accessible than the first, and with cliffhangers at every turn, even more thrilling.

The first collection of short fiction from Lambda Awardwinning 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 child. In Not Even Camping Is Like Camping Anymore, a teenage boy fends off the advances of a five-year-old his mother babysits. And in Dues, a man discovers that everything he owns is borrowed from someone elseincluding his time on earth. Walking the tightrope between tenderness and violence that has defined Pecks work since the publication of his first novel, Martin and John, through his most recent, Night Soil, What Burns reveals Pecks mastery of the short form.

Novelist and critic Dale Pecks latest workpart memoir, part extended essayis 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.Reminiscent of Joan Didions The White Album and Kurt Vonneguts Palm Sunday, Visions and Revisions is a sweeping, collage-style portrait of a tumultuous era. Moving seamlessly from the lyrical to the analytical to the reportorial, Pecks story takes readers from the serial killings of gay men in New York, London, and Milwaukee, through Pecks first loves upon coming out of the closet, to the transformation of LGBT people from marginal, idealistic fighters to their present place in a world of widespread, if fraught, mainstream acceptance.The narrative pays particular attention the words and deeds of AIDS activists, offering a streetlevel portrait of ACT UP with considerations of AIDS-centered fiction and criticism of the era, as well as intimate, sometimes elegiac portraits of artists, activists, and HIV-positive people Peck knew. Pecks fiery rhetoric against a government that sat on its hands for the first several years of the epidemic is tinged with the idealism of a young gay man discovering his political, artistic, and sexual identity. The result is a visionary and indispensable work from one of Americas most brilliant and controversial authors.

Dale Pecks second novel offers a searing, nuanced portrait of a marriage across the decades. Beatrice and Henrythe parents of the protagonist of Pecks debut novel, Martin and Johnare first drawn together when the teenaged Henry is battling a brain tumor that he believes will soon claim his life. But forty years later theyre still a couple, in a story that moves from Long Island to the Finger Lakes of upstate New York, and from love to hate and back again. Peck bisects the story of Henry and Beatrices marriage with a stunning 50-page memoir about his own father, mother, and three stepmothers, which combines with the primary narrative to build an unforgettable and deeply moving book about the ways that family both creates and destroys us.The Law of Enclosures is the second volume of Gospel Harmonies, a series of seven stand-alone books (four have been written) that follow the character of John in various guises as he attempts to navigate the uneasy relationship between the self and the postmodern world.

"Youd think it has been done before but it really hasntthe 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 on Judas Stammerss body, painted purple by a birthmark that covers half his face and abdomen. Judas is the last descendent of a 19th-century robber baron who made his fortune off the slaves who died in his coal mines. The moneys gone, but the legacy lives on in the form of an all-male, all-black private school founded by the family patriarch in atonement for his sins. Ostracized for his name as much as his appearance, Judass lust for his classmates is matched only by their contempt for him, until finally hes driven to seek out sex in places where his identity means nothing to the anonymous men he gives himself to. Hovering over everything is Judass mother, Dixie, an acclaimed potter whose obsession with creating the perfect vessel over and over again leaves her son that much more isolated. By turns philosophical and perverse, Night Soil is a tour de force by the writer whom Alexander Chee called the only genius I know who could write it and live.

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 hes 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 building for a small fortuneand turn Nellydean out of the only home shes known for more than forty yearsor attempt to stave off the mounting tide of taxes that will cause him to forfeit his only connection to a mother he never knew. Then Nellydeans niece shows up, looking for a home for herself and her unborn child, and an older man becomes smitten with James, even as Jamess health fails.The Garden of Lost and Found maps a tangled network 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.This is the fourth volume of Gospel Harmonies, a series of seven stand-alone books (four have been written) that follow the character of John in various guises as he attempts to navigate the uneasy relationship between the self and the postmodern world.

Dale Pecks 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 through self and history, Martin and John is one of the most remarkable novels to emerge from an America ravaged by disease, and one of the finest and most complex love stories of the 90s. Martin and John is the first volume of Gospel Harmonies, a series of seven stand-alone books (four have been written) which follow the character of John as he attempts to navigate the uneasy relationship between the self and the postmodern world.

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 uncles 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 Pecks most heartfelt and haunted novel to date.

Es Galatea para los blancos, Galatia para los negros. Ambas comunidades conviven con dificultad en esta pequeña población de Kansas, de apenas trescientos habitantes, acosadas por el recuerdo del linchamiento de Eric Johnson y reacias a hablar del oscuro pasado. A ella llegan, huyendo de Nueva York, el novelista Colin Nieman y su amante Justin Time. Pero esta no es solo su historia, sino también la de Divine, el joven chapero negro que se acuesta con todos los hombres a los que puede seducir; la de Wade Painter, el artista blanco aislado por su riqueza y una existencia ermitaña; la de Webbie Greeving, que ha abandonado su carrera académica para cuidar de su padre; la de Myra Robinson, la madre que perdió a su hija mucho antes de que a esta la secuestraran, y la de Lucy Robinson, la adolescente blanca que debe pagar por los crímenes de sus padres. Una obra calidoscópica, coral, ambiciosa y provocativa.

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 towns founders and Caucasians who buy up more of the towns land with each passing year. But within weeks of relocating, they are implicated in a harrowing crime, and discover that they cant outrun their own tortured history, nor that of their new home. An encompassing, visionary, many-threaded work, Now Its Time to Say Goodbye is an American novel of great scope and nearly mythological intensity.This is the third volume of Gospel Harmonies, a series of seven stand-alone books (four have been written) that follow the character of John in various guises as he attempts to navigate the uneasy relationship between the self and the postmodern world.

From one of Americas 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 buddy is just letting off steam. But when his actions put both of their lives in danger, its clear that Q. is possessed by something far more sinister than mere teenage high spirits. Meanwhile, halfway around the world in Khartoum, Ileana Magdalen is tracking an elusive man who has left a trail of blood and bodies behind him, bringing strife, war, and genocide wherever he goes. It is Ileanas mission to stop him, for she is a member of an elite group of hunters initiated into a mystery that plagues humanity and drives men and women to commit unspeakable crimes. When Ileana, Q., and Jasper are brought together, the loyalties of friendship are tested in unimaginable ways, and the living, the dead, and those who are beyond death become entangled in a violent battle as old as mankind itself. In Body Surfing, celebrated author Dale Peck presents a beautifully written page-turner of a literary thriller. It is a mesmerizing tale in which a complete parallel universe is filled with shockingly dark corners where the secrets of human nature wait to be discovered.

America in 1963 is a country at a crossroads: Vietnam, the civil rights movement, the Cuban missile crisis, the sexual revolution, FBI, CIA, LSD - and a promise of change offered by a new President, John F Kennedy. Some people believe in the future. Other conspire to control it.Chandler Forrestal is a man whose life is changed forever when he is unwittingly dragged into a CIA mind-control experiment. After being given a massive dose of LSD, Chandler develops a frightening array of mental powers. With his heightened perception he uncovers a plot to assassinate President Kennedy. Chased by the dark powers of world government, will Chandler be able to harness his shift and rewrite history?

Por el creador y productor de la aclamada serie de TV Héroes.¿Mató el LSD a JFK? Un thriller conspirativo con elementos alucinógenos.Ambientado en el crisol de la década de 1960, Sólo para tus ojos es la historia de Chandler Forrestal, un hombre cuya vida cambia para siempre cuando es reclutado para un experimento de control mental orquestado por la CIA. Tras serle inyectada una dosis masiva de LSD, Chandler desarrolla unas extrañas, y aterradoras, capacidades mentales, entre ellas una percepcion privilegiada que destapa un complot de asesinato al presidente Kennedy. De pronto, Chandler se convierte en blanco de todo tipo organizaciones, tanto gubernamentales como extragubernamentales.Mientras es perseguido por agentes de la CIA, matones de la Mafia, asesinos cubanos y ex cientificos nazis, se siente atraido por los encantos de una bella y misteriosa mujer con un turbio pasado. En su huida, ¿podra Chandler controlar su poder y reescribir la Historia? Mezclando el trepidante estilo de Robert Ludlum con las mejores conspiraciones de Don DeLillo y Philip K. Dick, Solo para tus ojos convoca a personajes reales como Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy Leary y J. Edgar Hoover para convertirse en un thriller provocador que no deja indiferente.

Por el creador y productor de la aclamada serie de TV Héroes.¿Mató el LSD a JFK? Unthriller conspirativo con elementos alucinógenos.Ambientado en el crisol de la década de 1960,Sólo para tus ojos es la historia de Chandler Forrestal,un hombre cuya vida cambia para siempre cuando es reclutado para un experimento de control mental orquestado por la CIA.Tras serle inyectada una dosis masiva de LSD, Chandler desarrolla unas extrañas, y aterradoras, capacidades mentales, entre ellas una percepcion privilegiada que destapa un complot de asesinato al presidente Kennedy. De pronto, Chandler se convierte en blanco de todo tipo organizaciones, tanto gubernamentales como extragubernamentales.Mientras es perseguido por agentes de la CIA, matones de la Mafia, asesinos cubanos y ex cientificos nazis, se siente atraido por los encantos de una bella y misteriosa mujer con un turbio pasado.En su huida, ¿podra Chandler controlar su poder y reescribir la Historia?Mezclando el trepidante estilo de Robert Ludlum con las mejores conspiraciones de Don DeLillo y Philip K. Dick,Solo para tus ojos convoca a personajes reales como Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy Leary y J. Edgar Hoover para convertirse en unthriller provocador que no deja indiferente.