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The Garden of Lost and Found

Dale Peck

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English
Soho Press Inc
01 December 2015
21-year-old James Ramsay discovers he's inherited a New York City building upon the death of his mother, who disappeared from his life shortly after his first birthday. James is faced with a choice- sell the building, 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.
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Imprint:   Soho Press Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 209mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 30mm
Weight:   365g
ISBN:   9781616955625
ISBN 10:   1616955627
Pages:   408
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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 for The Garden of Lost and Found

Praise for The Garden of Lost and Found A peculiar, hallucinatory novel . . .violently emotional, frequently unhinged, always interesting. EDGE Media A strange and wonderful novel [by] a strange and wonderful novelist. Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland [Peck] tells the quintessential New York story with his delicious style and piercing ability to move. Martha McPhee, author of Gorgeous Lies [Peck is a] brilliant writer, and this perplexing, beguiling, pre-and-post 9/11 Manhattan-set fable could have come from no one else. Booklist Peck delivers a novel that explores family, sexuality, AIDS, and the resiliency of the city, and he does it without kowtowing to the populist sentiment that a character ought to be likable: this one certainly isn't . . . In typical fashion, Peck spares no punches. Lambda Literary Foundation Praise for The Garden of Lost and Found A strange and wonderful novel [by] a strange and wonderful novelist. Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland [Peck] tells the quintessential New York story with his delicious style and piercing ability to move. Martha McPhee, author of Gorgeous Lies [Peck is a] brilliant writer, and this perplexing, beguiling, pre-and-post 9/11 Manhattan-set fable could have come from no one else. Booklist Peck delivers a novel that explores family, sexuality, AIDS, and the resiliency of the city, and he does it without kowtowing to the populist sentiment that a character ought to be likable: this one certainly isn't . . . In typical fashion, Peck spares no punches. Lambda Literary Foundation Praise for The Garden of Lost and Found A strange and wonderful novel [by] a strange and wonderful novelist. --Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland [Peck] tells the quintessential New York story with his delicious style and piercing ability to move. --Martha McPhee, author of Gorgeous Lies [Peck is a] brilliant writer, and this perplexing, beguiling, pre-and-post 9/11 Manhattan-set fable could have come from no one else. --Booklist Peck delivers a novel that explores family, sexuality, AIDS, and the resiliency of the city, and he does it without kowtowing to the populist sentiment that a character ought to be likable: this one certainly isn't . . . In typical fashion, Peck spares no punches. --Lambda Literary Foundation


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