Peter Cameron

• Jun-1987
• / General Fiction
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“Spare, poised stories in a fashionably narrow range of the minor keys, with carefully plucked chords of foreboding and loss strumming just under the surface.” —Kirkus ReviewsPeter Cameron’s first collection of short stories, ...

• Feb-1990
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“Leap Year attests to Mr. Cameron’s blossoming satiric gifts and his instinctive feeling for the confusions of a generation.” —The New York TimesAs the curtain falls on the vibrant, gritty New York of the 1980s, just-divorced ...

• Sep-1991
• / General Fiction
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Cameron’s collection of witty and insightful stories reveals individuals seeking love, stability, and acceptance The characters in Far-Flung, Peter Cameron’s second story collection, face a familiar dilemma: They aspire to happiness but are ...

• May-1994
• / General Fiction
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On a midsummer weekend, in a country house in upstate New York, three friends, Lyle, Marian, and John, gather on the anniversary of the death of John's brother, who was also Lyle's lover. As Tony's absence haunts each of them in different ways, the r...

• Jan-1997
• / Suspense
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For mysterious reasons, a man forsakes his American life and arrives in a strange country called Andorra. He settles into the grand--and only--hotel in its seaside capital, and gradually makes the aquaintance of this tiny city's most prominent reside...

• May-2002
• / General Fiction
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The City of Your Final Destination is a touching, clever and wonderfully comic novel from Peter Cameron, now a major motion picture starring Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney, and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Omar Razaghi posts a letter on September 13, 1995 ...

• Sep-2007
• / General Fiction
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It's time for eighteen-year-old James Sveck to begin his freshman year at Brown. Instead, he's surfing the real estate listings, searching for a sanctuary--a nice farmhouse in Kansas, perhaps. Although James lives in twenty-first-century Manhattan, h...

• Mar-2012
• / Literary
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Coral Glynn arrives at Hart House, an isolated manse in the English countryside, early in the very wet spring of 1950, to nurse the elderly Mrs. Hart, who is dying of cancer. Hart House is also inhabited by Mrs. Prence, the perpetually disgruntled ho...

• Aug-2020
• / Literary
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A couple find themselves at a fading, grand European hotel full of eccentric and sometimes unsettling patrons in this "faultlessly elegant and quietly menacing" allegorical story that examines the significance of shifting desires and the uncertainty ...

• / General Fiction
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Funny, moving short fiction from the author of Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: “[An] elegantly acute and mysteriously beguiling writer” (The Boston Globe).   This collection of stories represents the best of Peter Cameron&rs...