Peter Cameron, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-28197-7
Henry James would have liked Peter Cameron. The author of three well-received novels (most recently, Andorra), Cameron has a Jamesian love of conversation and a belief that when people venture into foreign countries they are revealed, if not at...
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Peter Cameron, Author . FSG/Foster $16 (229p) ISBN 978-0-374-30989-3
James Sveck, the 18-year-old protagonist of Cameron's (The City of Your Final Destination) first novel for young adults, is a precocious, lonely and confused Manhattanite who believes he would be happier buying a house in Kansas surrounded by a...
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Peter Cameron, Author HarperCollins Publishers $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-016252-8
A funny, fast-paced and ambitious first novel by a New Yorker writer whose stories were previously collected in One Way or Another , this romantic comedy (previously published in weekly installments in 7 Days ) chronicles a year in the life of New...
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Peter Cameron, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $17 (241p) ISBN 978-0-374-28739-9
Vapid dialogue and a uniformly languid cast of characters doom this sporadically insightful novella that explores themes of bereavement, change, love, loneliness and the quest for connection. A year after the AIDS death of a loved one, three friends
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Peter Cameron, Author Plume Books $13 (256p) 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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Peter Cameron, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-10505-1
Concealing a dark fable about the transcendent power of the imagination within a slyly ironic tale about a man of refinement and vague intention traveling to a tiny European nation, Cameron's third novel (after The Weekend) displays his gift for...
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Peter Cameron. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25 (210p) ISBN 978-0-374-29901-9
Set in the English countryside in the aftermath of WWII, this quietly compelling sixth novel from Cameron (The Weekend) focuses on the story of the eponymous heroine, Coral, a nurse, sent to Hart House in 1950 to tend the dying Mrs. Hart. With great
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Peter Cameron, read by Simon Prebble. Dreamscape Media, unabridged, six CDs, 7 hrs., $59.99 ISBN 978-1-61120-717-0
Set during the 1950s in a dark, dreary “mausoleum” of a mansion, Cameron’s novel follows the titular Coral Glynn as she arrives at Hart House to nurse the terminally ill Mrs. Hart, who lives with her son, Maj. Clement Hart, and their rigid...
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Peter Cameron. Catapult, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-948226-96-7
In this dreamlike, resonant fable, Cameron (Coral Glynn) depicts a pair of lost souls who travel to the edge of the world. Two unnamed New Yorkers in a frosty marriage disembark from a train in Borgarfjaroasysla, a fictional, far-northern European...
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