The Weekend

Peter Cameron. Plume Books, $13 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-452-27411-2

Three friends gather in the woods of upstate New York on the anniversary of a friend's death, only to be joined by two outsiders in Cameron's latest novel about relationships and love. (Apr.)

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