Now It's Time to Say Goodbye
  • Published: 1 October 2015
  • ISBN: 9781616955649
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $38.00

Now It's Time to Say Goodbye

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Now It's Time to Say Goodbye, Dale Peck's third novel, is part of a major project for Soho for 2015, which will comprise uniform reissues of Peck's first five novels; Peck's new, non-fiction book about AIDS, Visions and Revisions; and a fiction anthology edited by 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 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 (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.
  • Published: 1 October 2015
  • ISBN: 9781616955649
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $38.00
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Praise for Now It's Time to Say Goodbye

Praise for Now It's Time to Say Goodbye

  • "This dark, ferocious book reads like Twin Peaks and Pulp Fiction combined with Days of Heaven and To Kill a Mockingbird, with some bits of Faulkner, Carson McCullers and Flannery O'Connor thrown in for good measure. [Peck] has given us a big, galvanic novel, a novel that stands as the capstone, thus far, of his impressive career."--The New York Times Book Review
  • "With Now It's Time to Say Goodbye, Peck has written his most complex, subtle--while appearing the most literal--and chilling tale to date. And it is monumental, one of the most disturbing and morally powerful novels of the decade."--The Village Voice
  • "Peck is not only one of the leading literary voices of his generation, but also one of the few avant-garde writers of any age who is changing the rules for prose fiction. His novels simultaneously define and defy the genre."--Los Angeles Times
  • "There simply aren't enough superlatives to describe this great American novel: erudite and lyrical, Peck's latest is one of the best books of an outstanding literary year."--Out