The Weekend - Softcover

The Weekend: A Novel

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. First Picador Edition, April 2009, 1st printing. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Fine condition. Not PoD. "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 with a penchant for truth telling. As the seemingly idyllic weekend proceeds, each character is stripped bare, and old memories and new desires create a chemistry that will transform them all." [publisher copy] "Full of observations that ring like porch chimes and flicker like fireflies, evanescent yet indelible."--The New Yorker. "Echoes Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose brilliant narrative critiques of material culture open, again and again, to the metaphysical. Peter Cameron's tender elegy is as much a love song as a lament, as much a prayer as a dirge."--The New York Times Book Review. "A fascinating literary page-turner . . . We close the novel not only knowing each complicated 'prickly' character better, but also more aware and appreciative of the intricate sculpture that underlies all human social arrangements."--Michael Dorris, Los Angeles Times. Fine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Artikel-Nr. RUB3080

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