The Law Of Enclosures

(Paperback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

The Law of Enclosures journeys inside the marriage of Beatrice and Henry, the parents of two children, Susan and John, characters from the critically acclaimed debut novel Martin and John. The book is Dale Peck's second novel, and 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 & Revisions (Soho, April 2015, available from Turnaround); and a fiction anthology edited by Peck.

Reviews

Praise for The Law of Enclosures

An astonishing work of emotional wisdom . . . Peck has galvanized his reputation as one of the most eloquent voices of his generation.
TheNew York Times

With his first novel, 1993s Martin and John, Dale Peck drew critical hosannas for his uncannily authoritative grasp of style, which would have done credit to any veteran and was especially impressive given his youth . . . The book put some readers off, though, with its self-consciously complex stories-within-a-story structure, Pecks newest effort, The Law of Enclosures, is if anything more pretentious in its concept, and if possible more virtuosic in its execution.
Washington Post Book World

The prose is so unobtrusively graceful that it may take you a while to notice how beautiful it is . . . Peck is as piercing on old age as on youth, as comfortable writing about womens bodies as about mens.
TheNew Yorker

Few writers have Dale Pecks nerve. He writes without secrets, packing his novels with theintimacies of his life, his family, his sexuality . . . There is an extraordinary sense of the risk andadventure of writing in every page of this novel.
The Nation

Shatteringly honest, disturbing and provocative . . . A masterful confrontation with truth in the guise of a brilliantly conceived and executed work of fiction.
San FranciscoChronicle of Books

Pecks no-holds-barred writingwhich throw in everything, even titling a chapter after the kitchen sinkis what makes this familiar domestic plot worthwhile. He careens through catalogs of mundane items to reveal meaning . . . Beatrice and Henry may save themselves finally by refusing to turn their lives into a story, but were richer for the fact that Peck told one anyway.
Boston Globe

Remarkable . . . This curious, hump-backed book, with its mixture of private rage and accomplished world-making, and its absolute reality, is a very rate, original, and cherishable achievement. There is nothing else like it.
Guardian

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.