Ebook {Epub PDF} The Weekend by Peter Cameron

 · Overview. 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 reunion is complicated by the presence of Lyle's new lover, a much younger man named Robert, and a faux-Italian dinner guest Brand: Picador. by Peter Cameron. In a country house in upstate New York, three friends gather on the anniversary of the death of a man who was related to them all, by either blood or love. Their idyll is disturbed by the 3/5(1). Adelphi publishes a new book by. Peter Cameron in Italy. Gli inconvenienti della vita is comprised of two novellas (The End of My Life in New York and After the Flood) which both explore the complications and exigencies of life in the early 21st bltadwin.ru-length versions of both novellas were originally published in the literary journal Subtropics; The End of My Life in New York was.

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by Peter Cameron. In a country house in upstate New York, three friends gather on the anniversary of the death of a man who was related to them all, by either blood or love. Their idyll is disturbed by the presence of two outsiders and everything becomes charged with the tension of trying to come to terms with loss. Author Peter Cameron’s novel, The Weekend, is a poignant examination of friendship, intimacy and the unconventional ties that bind four individuals with clashing personalities. The characters in the story try to avert disaster over a two-day period spent together in upstate New York. What's planned as a peaceful summer weekend instead stirs up all its participants' insecurities in this beautifully modulated novel of relationships, Cameron's fourth work of fiction (after the story collection Far-Flung, ). John and Marian, 40ish and filthy rich, wait in their lovely upstate New York home for the arrival of art critic Lyle, the lover of John's half-brother and Marian's very dear friend Tony, who died of AIDS exactly one year before.