On the run from the AIDS epidemic - and in search of their own lost love - Colin Nieman and Justin Time abandon New York City for the tiny Kansas city of Galatea. Racially polarised and fraught with age-old tensions, the town is dominated by Rosemary Krebs, a white matriarch determined to resurrect her lost Southern childhood, and Abraham Greeving, the black preacher who will do anything to stop her. When young Lucy Robinson is kidnapped and feared murdered, Colin and Justin are drawn into the town's dark web of hatred and ...
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On the run from the AIDS epidemic - and in search of their own lost love - Colin Nieman and Justin Time abandon New York City for the tiny Kansas city of Galatea. Racially polarised and fraught with age-old tensions, the town is dominated by Rosemary Krebs, a white matriarch determined to resurrect her lost Southern childhood, and Abraham Greeving, the black preacher who will do anything to stop her. When young Lucy Robinson is kidnapped and feared murdered, Colin and Justin are drawn into the town's dark web of hatred and fear. NOW ITS TIME TO SAY GOODBYE is a compelling story of violence and prejudice in small-town America. Provocative, ambitious and spellbinding in its narrative power, Dale Peck's new novel marks a bold new development in Peck's extraordinary career.
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