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Claude Peck Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Claude Peck is a book and arts critic. Ex-arts and news editor, Star Tribune. Co-writer of Withering Glance. Book reviewer.

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Book Cover for: The Magician, Colm Toibin

The Magician

Colm Toibin
Claude PeckClaude Peck

My cover review of Colm Toibin's "The Magician" in the Gay & Lesbian Review. (You may encounter a paywall.) @scribnerbooks @colmtoibin #thomasmann https://bit.ly/3ojPqFk https://t.co/itoDTA6aMV

Paperback, 2022

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Learned by Heart, Emma Donoghue

Learned by Heart

Emma Donoghue
Claude PeckClaude Peck

Donoghue…is superb at capturing the unmediated hearts of love-drenched adolescents: raw, vulnerable, disorienting, almost painfully excitable.

Hardcover, 2023

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Swim Home to the Vanished, Brendan Shay Basham

Swim Home to the Vanished

Brendan Shay Basham
Claude PeckClaude Peck

Brendan Shay Basham's debut novel is an incantatory trip through place and time, fueled by grief and animated by magic. Sometimes as intense and disorienting as a virtual reality excursion or a fever dream…"Swim Home to the Vanished" preserves some memorable stories, memorably.

Hardcover, 2023

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Prophets, Robert Jones Jr

The Prophets

Robert Jones Jr
Claude PeckClaude Peck

"The Prophets" by Robert Jones, Jr. is a Natl. Book Award finalist in fiction. Here's my review of it: http://strib.mn/2Mnjz7b @nationalbook @SonofBaldwin @penguinrandom https://t.co/vsUlBaRFFk

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Memorial Days: A Memoir, Geraldine Brooks

Memorial Days: A Memoir

Geraldine Brooks
Claude PeckClaude Peck

Masterfully reveals Brooks as both reporter and fiction writer, marshaling facts and details while probing the ever-motivating miracles of love and loss.

Hardcover, 2025

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book