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What we lost

Dale Peck

2003229 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2003
first published
  • 2004Granta · 229 pages · ENGISBN 9781862076419
  • 2004Houghton Mifflin · 229 pages · ENGISBN 9780618251285

The critically acclaimed author of Now It's Time to Say Goodbye offers a thoughful biography of his father's tumultuous childhood and youth, describing his childhood in a poverty-stricken Long Island home with an abusive mother and alcoholic father, his move to his uncle's farm in upstate New York, and his difficult choice between his broken family and his future.

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