Daring to Eat a Peach
by Joseph Zeppetello
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Pub Date Nov 01 2010 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Description
“Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.”
-T.S. Eliot, “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Divorced translator Denton Pike is stalled in a moment of inertia until the reappearance of his old friend, Peter, a roving journalist, sets into motion a series of watershed events of conflicting forces. Denton and his handful of thirty-something friends each face a choice: seize the day and change your surroundings or bite your lip and perpetuate the status quo.
A finely crafted narrative that explores the motivations and mettle of a close-knit group of 21st-century knowledge workers, Daring to Eat a Peach examines the interpretation of history, the translation of language, and the dynamics of modern-day relationships. With spare, tightly written prose, Joseph Zeppetello’s debut novel sparkles with a Raymond Carver-like economic use of language. The effortless dialogue speaks volumes about human nature and illuminates humanity’s daily struggles to make the right choices in life.
About the Author
Joseph Zeppetello is the Director of Writing at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. He lives in the Catskill Mountains. Daring to Eat a Peach is his first novel.
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.”
-T.S. Eliot, “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Divorced translator Denton Pike is stalled in a moment of inertia until the reappearance of his old friend, Peter, a roving journalist, sets into motion a series of watershed events of conflicting forces. Denton and his handful of thirty-something friends each face a choice: seize the day and change your surroundings or bite your lip and perpetuate the status quo.
A finely crafted narrative that explores the motivations and mettle of a close-knit group of 21st-century knowledge workers, Daring to Eat a Peach examines the interpretation of history, the translation of language, and the dynamics of modern-day relationships. With spare, tightly written prose, Joseph Zeppetello’s debut novel sparkles with a Raymond Carver-like economic use of language. The effortless dialogue speaks volumes about human nature and illuminates humanity’s daily struggles to make the right choices in life.
About the Author
Joseph Zeppetello is the Director of Writing at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. He lives in the Catskill Mountains. Daring to Eat a Peach is his first novel.
Advance Praise
Praise for Daring to Eat a Peach
“Life is both the choices we make and the accidents that happen to us; in Daring to Eat a Peach, Joseph Zeppetello captures both in fine fashion.” - James Polk, owner of A New Leaf Bookstore and freelance reviewer for The New York Times
“If [T.S.] Eliot understood the increased self-deprecating nature of aging, Zeppetello animates the path along the way and you can’t help but smile. A triumphant first novel!” -Florence Dee Boodakian, author of Resisting Nudities: A Study in the Aesthetics of Eroticism
“Zeppetello has something of the prolific Upton Sinclair in him, but his indignation is more cool than fervid. He is a keen observer of the culture…alluding to things we ought to know and may even claim to know but in fact have not absorbed.” - Djelloul Marbrook, poet and author of Far From Algiers and Artemisia’s Wolf
“It is difficult to believe that Daring to Eat a Peach is a first novel for author Joseph Zeppetello, so polished is the prose, so succinct the manner of communicating many characters in their interaction with members of their past and their present, so satisfying is the story he gradually unfolds.” - Grady Harp, Amazon.com Top Reviewer
“Life is both the choices we make and the accidents that happen to us; in Daring to Eat a Peach, Joseph Zeppetello captures both in fine fashion.” - James Polk, owner of A New Leaf Bookstore and freelance reviewer for The New York Times
“If [T.S.] Eliot understood the increased self-deprecating nature of aging, Zeppetello animates the path along the way and you can’t help but smile. A triumphant first novel!” -Florence Dee Boodakian, author of Resisting Nudities: A Study in the Aesthetics of Eroticism
“Zeppetello has something of the prolific Upton Sinclair in him, but his indignation is more cool than fervid. He is a keen observer of the culture…alluding to things we ought to know and may even claim to know but in fact have not absorbed.” - Djelloul Marbrook, poet and author of Far From Algiers and Artemisia’s Wolf
“It is difficult to believe that Daring to Eat a Peach is a first novel for author Joseph Zeppetello, so polished is the prose, so succinct the manner of communicating many characters in their interaction with members of their past and their present, so satisfying is the story he gradually unfolds.” - Grady Harp, Amazon.com Top Reviewer
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780984510511 |
| PRICE | 14.95 |
| PAGES | 240 |
