Dale Peck, What We Lost.(Editors' Choices)(Book Review)

From: The Literary Review | Date: June 22, 2004| Author: Montalbano, Albry | Copyright information

Dale Peck, What We Lost. Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003.

In What We Lost, Peck's fourth book, a third-person narrator recreates for us the events of Peck's father's childhood on a farm in upstate New York. The book fuses the elements of fiction with those of memoir. It is a story of an adolescent boy kidnapped from his home by his father and dropped off at his uncle's house. At the uncle's house, the boy is saved from his homelife of an abusive mother, dr...

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