Now It's Time To Say Goodbye

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NOW IT'S TIME TO SAY GOODBYE is Dale Peck's third novel, part of Soho Press' major uniform reissue programme of his work. On the run from the AIDS epidemic, Colin and Justin move to the tiny Kansas city of Galatea. When a young girl is kidnapped, they are drawn into the town's dark web of hatred and fear. A gothic horror story of violence and prejudice in small-town America, published to overwhelming critical acclaim.

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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 OConnor 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.
Michiko Kakutani,TheNew York Times

Peck is not only one of the leading literary voices of his generation, but also one of the fewavant-garde writers of any age who is changing the rules for prose fiction. His novels simultaneously define and defy the genre.
Los Angeles Times

Fiercely compelling . . . There is no place that Dale Peck is afraid to go, but what he takes for granted about human nature is just as astonishing. He does show us all of ourselves, even if we dont want to believe.
The Boston Globe

Now Its Time to Say Goodbyeis [a] wonder. Its an enormous book, brilliant without being gratuitously difficult, comic, horrific, sly, a stretch that [Peck] pulls off with ease. If you didnt know it already, youll by the time youre done: Dale Peck can do whatever he wants to.
BOMB Magazine

With Now Its Time to Say Goodbye, Peck has written his most complex, subtlewhile appearing the most literaland chilling tale to date. And it is monumental, one of the most disturbing and morally powerful novels of the decade. In The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde described the truth as rarely pure and never simpleand the same can be said of the people in Now Its Time to Say Goodbye and the stories Dale Peck has to tell.
The Village Voice

The most technically accomplished work to emerge from a gay publishing boom gone bust in the late 90s. Pecks third novel promises to break him out of the gay literary ghetto. Goodbye is an endlessly allusive and elusive thriller . . . There simply arent enough superlatives to describe this great American novel: erudite and lyrical, Pecks latest is one of the best books of an outstanding literary year.
Out

A world that hints of David Lynchs Blue Velvet: the strangeness is upsetting, off-putting, unbelievable, andthrough the inescapable power of Pecks unyielding stylecompletely riveting.
Philadelphia Inquirer

Author Bio

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 appeared in dozens of publications, and have earned him two O. Henry Awards, a Pushcart Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. He lives in New York City, where he has taught in the New School's Graduate Writing Program since 1999.