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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Dale Peck’s second novel offers a searing, nuanced portrait of a marriage across the decades. Beatrice and Henry—the parents of the protagonist of Peck’s debut novel, Martin and John—are first drawn together when the teenaged Henry is battling a brain tumor that he believes will soon claim his life. But forty years later they’re still a couple, in a story that moves from Long Island to the Finger Lakes of upstate New York, and from love to hate and back again. Peck bisects the story of Henry and Beatrice’s marriage with a stunning 50-page memoir about his own father, mother, and three stepmothers, which combines with the primary narrative to build an unforgettable and deeply moving book about the ways that family both creates and destroys us. The Law of Enclosures is the second 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. no reviews | add a review
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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