Now Its Time to Say Goodbye, Dale Peck
Now Its Time to Say Goodbye, Dale Peck
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Now It's Time to Say Goodbye

Author: Dale Peck

Narrator: Andrew Eiden, Angelo Di Loreto, Adenrele Ojo, Carly Robins, JD Jackson, Joyce Bean, Patrick Lawlor, Ron Butler

Unabridged: 20 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/16/2019


Synopsis

“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, 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 are implicated in a harrowing crime, and discover that they can’t outrun their own tortured history, nor that of their new home. An encompassing, visionary, many-threaded work, Now It’s 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 that follow the character of John in various guises as he attempts to navigate the uneasy relationship between the self and the postmodern world.“[A] fascinating melodrama of sexual and racial confusion, conflict, and injustice.” —Kirkus Reviews“[Filled] with an emotional vengeance, dramatic breadth and observant fervency that brings his every gift to fruition.” —Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review“It is horrifying and funny and then too funny to be horrifying, or too horrifying to amuse. It is fiercely compelling and profoundly unpleasant. It is a virtuoso technical exercise that is also soul-music.” —The Boston Globe

About Dale Peck

Dale Peck is the author of twelve books in a variety of genres, including Martin and John, Hatchet Jobs, and Sprout. His fiction and criticism have earned him two O. Henry Awards, a Pushcart Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. He lives in New York City, where he teaches in the New School’s Graduate Writing Program.


Reviews

Goodreads review by William2 on March 25, 2018

I couldn’t finish this one. But I want to give it another go. It’s filled with lurid queens which is my stomping ground certainly. Gee, that was a poor mix of images, wasn’t it? Well, let me just add that I’m pro-queen to the hilt!......more

Goodreads review by JP on March 22, 2008

I don't think there are enough words for me to describe how much I loved this book as I was reading it, and how much I still love it almost ten years later. The tragedy is that currently it is out of print. The book is Gothic, epic, disturbing, erotic, poetic, allegorical and probably one of the bes......more

Goodreads review by Liam on July 20, 2024

"'An utterly gripping thriller - crammed full of suspense, Gothic horror and often startling violence...This dark, ferocious book reads like Twin Peaks and Pulp Fiction combined with Days of Thunder and To Kill a Mockingbird, with some bits of Faulkner, Carson McCullers and Flannery O'Connor thrown......more

Goodreads review by Timothy on May 27, 2008

I still contend that Dale Peck is the best writer working in this century, although he's taken a turn from his fiction and writes primarily essays and reviews for a number of magazines. This was probably his most universally appealing novel that no one has read, the stories and slow reveals as divulg......more