Reviews
"One of the Windy City's best-kept secrets, Peterson (Twilight of the Idiots, 2015, etc.) looks to grab attention with this..."
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Gunmetal Blue here.
Kirkus Review
"Joseph Peterson plants his flag more deeply in the territory he calls his own with this book. Forgotten, peripheral, or useless, the men in all five of his prose novels (a verse novel, Into the Whale, completes his full-length works) are the ones we walk past unthinkingly."
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Wanted: Elevator Man here.
Entropy Magazine
"Joseph G. Peterson's third novel, Gideon's Confession, tells a very specific kind of coming-of-age story. In short, the book is about the burden of freedom, the difficult task of deciding what one should do with oneself."
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Gideon's Confession here.
Bookslut
"In most of these 11 bluntly told stories, the prospect of imminent death compels the characters to confront their mortality in ways ranging from the desperate to the tragically inevitable."
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Twilight of the Idiots here.
Publishers Weekly