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What we lost by Dale Peck

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What we lost

by Dale Peck

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.

Fiction Poor families Young men Uncles
Author Dale Peck
Published 2004
Format Book

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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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