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Batter Gray is worried about his future. Even when he was eleven, his classmates
seemed to have settled on a goal: doctor, lawyer, broker, engineer. Good jobs that
automatically command respect and security. Now Batter is in his early 20s, living in
New York City, and he wants something different; something that alienates some
people and bores most. Poetry. And yet-to him and exactly thirty-nine editors at a
company called Peck & Peck-poetry not only represents the power of humanity but
holds the key to its survival.
Batter was named after his mother’s dog, who seemed to have achieved more in
his short years on earth than he ever will. But as an identical twin who lost his
brother at birth, Batter finds himself confronted by the everyday dualities that make
up life: right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, rejection vs. acceptance. It’s almost as if his
dead brother is a reminder: there are always two sides to every story.
No, wait. Make that three.
In Peck & Peck Bonnie Garmus has created a tour de force of a novel. Hugely
original, brilliantly funny and peopled with unforgettable characters, Peck &
Peck is both a passionate ode to the written