“I met Walt during a blizzard” Leonard tells us in one of the novel’s frequent (and often caustic) footnotes. His father, a former rock star currently on the run from the IRS, and his mother, a fashion designer who lives in NYC with her French boyfriend, are clearly terrible parents.Īs Leonard makes his way through his day and we meet the four people he deems worthy of parting gifts, it’s easy to see how lonely and isolated he is.įirst there’s Walt, the old man who lives next door. Leonard isn’t your run-of-the-mill teenager. I was immediately enchanted by Leonard’s charming, wry and honest narrative – he is immediately believable and sympathetic. To let them know I really cared about them and I’m sorry I couldn’t be more than I was – that I couldn’t stick around – and that what’s going to happen today isn’t their fault.įorgive Me, Leonard Peacock is a smart, funny, heartbreaking novel by Matthew Quick, perhaps better known for Silver Linings Playbook. I want to give them each something to remember me by. Before he can do that, though, he has some gifts to deliver, gifts he’s wrapped in pink paper and packed in his knapsack along with his grandfather’s P-38 WWII handgun. It’s also the day he has elected to kill himself – but first he has to kill his former best friend, Asher Beal. Today is Leonard Peacock’s 18th birthday.
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