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    Greenville
    Greenville
    Greenville
    Audiobook8 hours

    Greenville

    Written by Dale Peck

    Narrated by Chris Andrew Ciulla

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    Inspired by a troubled family history, this “book of grace and dignity . . . will be around for a long, long time” (Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin).

    In this “terrific” novel, award-winning author Dale Peck recounts the childhood of his father, Dale Peck Sr. (Jonathan Safran Foer). 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 uncle’s dairy farm in upstate New York. There, he begins to thrive, finding real love and connection with his Uncle Wallace and Aunt Bess. But ultimately, he is unable to outrun the chaos and violence of his old life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 11, 2019
    ISBN9781721353354
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    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.

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    • 5/5
      This beautifully written family story - maintains a level of tenderness in spite of alcoholism, violence, and abuse. In the end, "the boy" makes it through scarred but makes it. Descriptions of farm life and family dynamics remind me of Falkner. If there's a lesson, family counts, even bad families, and hard work pays off.
    • 4/5
      This is a wonderful story which continued to surprise me right to the ending. "The boys" time at the farm with "the ladies" was magical and I was mesmerized. It is a somewhat complicated story which never is confusing. Peck is a wonderful writer and this is my second favorite memoir that I've read this year (Mississippi Sissy by Kevin Sessums is first). At the beginning it did seem as though the writer was inserting metaphors in every other sentence and was an annoyance for just the first few pages. Some of the metaphors were very good but it seemed a bit gratuitous and forced.