- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Chatto & Windus (7 May 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0701167203
- ISBN-13: 978-0701167202
- Product Dimensions: 24 x 15 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,878,074 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The setting for Dale Peck's third novel is not one but two small, dying towns: Galatea, settled by the white citizens of Kenosha after a firestorm of biblical proportions destroyed their town, and Galatia, founded by black pioneers more than 100 years before. Galatea may have effectively erased the older town in the eyes of the world, but it did not remove it, and Galatia lives on as a kind of shadowy palimpsest. To this dusty corner of the prairie come two outsiders, Justin Time and his lover Colin Nieman. Fleeing from New York, where AIDS has claimed the lives of the magic number of 500 of their friends, the two settle in Galatea for reasons that are not immediately apparent--though one Galatean lists five possible ones: "A-I-D-S were the first four and the fifth was: it ain't round here." Colin is a successful novelist with several books to his credit and enough money to buy the county's grandest house; Justin has nothing, not even his own name--that "bad joke," says Colin, "that refused to go away." Soon the pair are drawn into the legacy of Galatea's hate-filled racial past. Years ago, a black albino boy named Eric Johnson was lynched for supposedly molesting a little white girl; later, the same little girl, grown up into Galatea's homecoming queen, is raped, mutilated and abducted while Justin looks on. Now It's Time To Say Goodbye is very different from the narrative experimentation of Peck's first two novels, Fucking Martin and The Law of Enclosures. Still, certain names--Susan, Martin, John, Bea--and vague corresponding character similarities recur in all three, to disorienting effect. Also like its predecessors, this is a deeply unconventional and disturbing book. Incest; murder; a love quadrangle that's driven by equal parts lust and art; characters with names like Webby Greeving, T.V. Daniels, Rosetta Stone, the artist Wade Painter and his paramour Divine--this is one thriller that reads like the postmodern literary love child of William Faulkner and Edgar Allan Poe.
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"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 O'Connor thrown in for good measure. [Peck] has given us a big, galvanic nove, a novel that stands as the capstone, thus far, of his impressive career." --Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times"
"[Peck] revists the places and pasts of his earlier fiction...with an emotional vengence, dramatic bredth and observant fervency that brings his every gift to frution.. It chills. That if falls unltimately into a pattern beutiful, affecting and rational strongly proves Peck's mastery as a writer." --Cella McGee, "Los Angeles Times Book Review"
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Don't be fooled by the simplistic synopsis. Peck has once again cut open the novel and exposed the mechanics of his writing. The story is incidental, as we're dealing with perspectives here. It took me a while to realise this and perhaps I should now reread it to get the full picture. Characters describe the same event and we're never sure about what is real. This novel is about unreliable narrators and perspectives. Who you believe will influence the story the read. The exterior night scenes are seriously eerie...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
better then great
leaves you speechless in so many ways.
search everywhere for everything he has done. the law of enclosures, though totally different is also well worth a read
but 'ggodbye' is so haunting that you will be moved, repulsed and over all hooked
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
After reading Fucking Martin (with much pleasure) and not fancying The Law of Enclosures, I was pleased to find out about Now It's Time to Say Goodbye. I have now read the book, recommended it to all my friends and without doubt think it is one of the best books of 1999.
Take the positioning of homophobia and the definition of masculinity with historical similarities to a racial history in America's past, add truly excellent, believable characters and you will find yourself immersed in a thriller that will not only prevent you from ever closing the book for more than one day, but one that will remain with you a long time after is has been read.
I would recommend this book to anyone. Buy it and read it - IMMEDIATELTY!
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