Night Soil, Dale Peck
Night Soil, Dale Peck
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Night Soil

Author: Dale Peck

Narrator: Lee Warden

Unabridged: 7 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/27/2019

Synopsis

Family secrets, sexual explorations, art world wealth, and legacies of racism and environmental destruction collide in this novel from Lambda Award-winning author Dale Peck.The art world falls in love with Dixie Stammers when it is discovered that not only are her pots mechanically perfect spheres, they are also identical, despite the fact that they are made entirely by hand, without benefit of a wheel, measuring device, or any other tool.Her teenage son, Judas, is pathologically shy, and retreats into a world of anonymous sexual encounters at a roadside rest area. What he really longs for though is a relationship with one of the boys at the private school he attends. The Academy was founded by Judas’s ancestral grandfather, a nineteenth-century coal magnate. Driven by his mother’s secretive nature, Judas begins digging into his family’s history, and the Academy’s, until he unearths a series of secrets that cause him to question everything he thought he knew about his world.

About Dale Peck

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 earned him two O. Henry Awards, a Pushcart Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. He lives in New York City, where he teaches in the New School’s Graduate Writing Program.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dennis on May 03, 2018

2.5 / 5 stars Let's get one thing clear—I am way too stupid to accurately judge or critique Night Soil. That being said, it is a beautifully told and intelligently written fiction novel, focusing on racism, sexuality, family, and contemporary art. The story is told by Judas Stammers, son of artis......more

Goodreads review by Gerhard on October 10, 2018

This book took me completely by surprise. I’ve never read Martin and John, but Dale Peck has always been on my radar as a gay author of note. So when Night Soil came out, I was sufficiently intrigued to give it a bash – curious especially as to why the reviews have been so polarising, on Goodreads a......more

Goodreads review by Liam on March 27, 2024

I have always been dazzled by Mr. Peck's writing, I wouldn't dare try to critique it (I have no academic literary background, only a love of books and stories) but then although I have no doubt of the richness and depth of his writing (and I don't just mean his use of odd words or when he refers to......more

Goodreads review by Loring on August 17, 2018

This is my first experience reading Dale Peck, an author with a wide-ranging reputation in the LGBTQ community for both fiction and essays. It is obvious in reading segments from this brief novel that Peck is one of the true masters of using language. The expertise reveals itself not only in the des......more

Goodreads review by Lethe on September 25, 2018

Oh, how much I wanted to enjoy this book. I began with a certain appreciation for the voice of it's protagonist, Judas. But the more pages I turned, the more the style of the book - a bit stream of consciousness a bit meandering narration, became so intrusive to reader pleasures. Peck may be a much-......more

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