Peace, Gene Wolfe
Peace, Gene Wolfe
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Peace

Author: Gene Wolfe

Narrator: David Pittu

Unabridged: 10 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/13/2026

Synopsis

Originally published in 1975, Peace is a spellbinding, brilliant tour de force of the imagination. The melancholy memoir of Alden Dennis Weer, an embittered old man living out his last days in a small midwestern town, the novel reveals a miraculous dimension as the narrative unfolds. For Weer’s imagination has the power to obliterate time and reshape reality, transcending even death itself. Powerful, moving, and uncompromisingly honest, Peace ranks alongside the finest literary works of our time. Hailed as “one of the literary giants of SF” by The Denver Post, Gene Wolfe has repeatedly won the field’s highest honors, including the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards. Peace is Gene Wolfe’s first full-length novel, a work that shows the genius that later flourished in such acclaimed works as Home Fires and The Book of the New Sun.

About Gene Wolfe

Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) was a winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, as well as two Nebula Awards, three World Fantasy Awards, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Prix Apollo. In 2007, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. In 2013, he received the SFWA Grand Master Award. 

About Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman is the author of several #1 New York Times bestsellers, including Norse Mythogy, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and Anansi Boys, and others, as well as the Sandman series of graphic novels. His fiction has received Newbery, Carnegie, Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Will Eisner awards. His novel American Gods aired as a TV series in 2017. Originally from England, he lives in the United States, where he is a professor at Bard College.

About David Pittu

David Pittu, a two-time Tony Award nominee, has narrated dozens of audiobooks, including Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, which earned two prestigious Audie Awards for best narration. He has also won three Earphones Awards. Well-known for his work in theater, he has appeared off-Broadway in LoveMusik and Is He Dead, for which he received his Tony nominations, as well as Parade, for which he earned a National Broadway Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He is also a writer, member, and director of the Atlantic Theater company.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Greg on September 06, 2013

Congratulations on your purchase/borrowing/piracy of "Peace" by Gene Wolfe! We who have come before you hope you will be very, very satisfied with your purchase, and will come back to it for years to come! Before you enjoy your copy for the first (or second) time, here are some helpful tips: 1. Perse......more

Goodreads review by L.S. on June 14, 2024

I never expected so much depth. While it is barely Science Fiction, it is most certainly literature of the highest caliber. Like Faulkner, Wolfe constantly cripples the reader's understanding with his obscure perspectives and elegant suggestion. Chronology and irony are never explicit, and character......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on December 15, 2013

This is one of my favorite books. I still don’t completely understand this book. With Gene Wolfe this is not a problem (at least with his earlier works—for me, the jury is still out on some of his latest novels). His books are layered, and they always repay the slow, careful re-read. I’ve gone throu......more

Goodreads review by Stuart on October 08, 2016

Peace: Fragmented, deceptive memoir with dark undercurrents Originally posted at Fantasy Literature Gene Wolfe’s Peace (1975) is a book that both invites and defies analysis — to the point where there is a small cottage industry devoted to competing theories of the meaning of the literary allusions, o......more

Goodreads review by Jay on June 11, 2008

Subtle subtle subtle. Some images I'll never shake out of my head. This is the sort of book where... You read a chapter, you're like Huh interesting, you go to bed, then you sit bolt upright in bed and go No way!! He didn't! Did he??? But he did.......more

Quotes

“A tricky, evil, deep, and remarkable novel by one of America’s finest writers…It is not merely one of my favorite books (although it is certainly that); it is one of a tiny handful of modern novels of which I am in awe.” Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods and The Sandman

“This delicate, insubstantial web of Alden Dennis Weer’s memoirs acquires a solidity and a timelessness which may well make it one of Wolfe’s most remarkable works.” SF Site 

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