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A novel about deceit, desire, and the persistence of memory. After a devastating personal tragedy, a man leaves the United States to start a new life. The country he settles in, Andorra, eerily echoes his past - especially when he begins to fall in love with two women simultaneously.
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 of reality (Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness). An unnamed American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It’s a difficult journey that leaves the wife, who is struggling with cancer, desperately weak, and her husband worries that her illness will prevent the orphanage from releasing their child. On arrival, the couple checks into the cavernous and eerily deserted Borgarfjaroasysla Grand Imperial Hotel where the bar is always open and the lobby populated with an enigmatic cast of characters ranging from an ancient, flamboyant chanteuse to a debauched businessman to an enigmatic faith healer. Nothing is as it seems in this baffling, frozen world, and the more the couple struggles to claim their baby, the less they seem to know about their marriage, themselves, and life itself. For readers of Ian McEwan, Elizabeth Strout, and Iris Murdoch, What Happens at Night is a "masterpiece" (Edmund White) poised on the cusp of reality, told by "an elegantly acute and mysteriously beguiling writer" (Richard Eder, The Boston Globe).
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 housekeeper, and Major Clement Hart, Mrs. Hart's war-ravaged son, who is struggling to come to terms with his latent homosexuality. When a child's game goes violently awry in the woods surrounding Hart House, a great shadow - love, perhaps - descends upon its inhabitants. Like the misguided child's play, other seemingly random events - a torn dress, a missing ring, a lost letter - propel Coral and Clement into the dark thicket of marriage. A period novel observed through a refreshingly gimlet eye, Coral Glynn explores how quickly need and desire can blossom into love, and just as quickly transform into something less categorical. Borrowing from themes and characters prevalent in the work of mid-twentieth-century British women writers, Peter Cameron examines how we live and how we love - with his customary empathy and wit.
Set during a summer weekend in upstate New York, the story revolves around three friends grappling with the loss of John's brother, Tony, who was also Lyle's lover. The gathering is further complicated by Lyle's new, younger partner, Robert, and a dinner guest known for his honesty. As the weekend unfolds, hidden emotions and unresolved pasts emerge, leading to revelations that challenge their relationships and reshape their identities. The narrative explores themes of grief, desire, and the complexities of friendship.
Eighteen-year-old James living in New York City with his older sister and divorced mother struggles to find a direction for his life.
This is the story of a quiet man, destined to be a farmer but who becomes an academic. It is book in which nothing and everything happens and is possibly the greatest novel you've never read. 'It's simply a novel about a guy who goes to college and becomes a teacher. But its one of the most fascinating things that you've ever come across' Tom Hanks, Time William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death, his colleagues remember him rarely. Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value - of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history - and in doing so reclaims the significance of an individual life. 'A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life' Ian McEwan 'A brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise and elegant novel' Nick Hornby INTRODUCED BY JOHN McGAHERN
A Manhattan au début de 1988, année bissextile, tout semble aller de travers. Entre les beaux quartiers autour de Central Park et le bas de la ville, Soho, une petite bande d'amis fait des allées et venues dans ce " champ de mines physiques et émotionnels " qu'est la vie des villes, et se serre les coudes. Quand Loren et David Parish divorcent, leur fille Kate va de l'un à l'autre. Puis un nouveau venu, jeune photographe, beau garçon et naïf, séduit David. Ente l'édition, la banque, les relations publiques et privées, les galeries d'art, le cynisme arriviste des uns et la sincérité des autres, Peter Cameron décrit d'une façon désarmante et pleine d'esprit la vie que l'on vit tous les jours. Un vrai roman moderne de la société new-yorkaise.
Ein New Yorker Ehepaar reist mit dem Zug in eine abgeschiedene, schneeverwehte Kleinstadt im Norden Europas, um im örtlichen Waisenhaus ein Kind abzuholen, das sie adoptieren wollen. Er hofft, durch das Kind seiner Frau wieder näherzukommen. Sie, gezeichnet vom Kampf gegen eine tödliche Krankheit, will ihn nach ihrem Tode nicht allein zurücklassen. Am Ziel ihrer Reise angelangt, quartieren sich die beiden im Grand Imperial Hotel ein, das von der Pracht längst vergangener Tage zeugt und in dem eine Handvoll skurriler Gäste logiert. Am nächsten Morgen setzt das Taxi sie fälschlicherweise nicht beim Waisenhaus ab, sondern vor dem Haus von Bruder Emmanuel, einem mysteriösen Heiler. Dies löst eine Reihe von Verwicklungen aus, die den Plan, das Kind abzuholen, nach und nach in den Hintergrund treten lassen. In diesem Buch darf nichts für bare Münze genommen werden – und nie weiß man, was als Nächstes geschieht. Peter Cameron stört empfindlich unsere Gewissheiten über den natürlichen Ablauf der Welt und liefert dabei einen Roman ab, dessen eigenartige Spannung und grotesker Humor ihresgleichen suchen.
Quando qualcuno si accinge a scrivere la biografia di qualcun altro, parenti e amici del biografato cercano quasi sempre di ostacolare un'iniziativa che, in un futuro minacciosamente vicino, li costringerebbe a leggere la solita compilazione di svarioni, congetture e voli di fantasia non autorizzati. È quindi ovvio che né la moglie, né il fratello, né l'amante del defunto Jules Gund, autore di un solo e venerato libro, desiderano che il giovane Omar Rezaghi si rechi nella tenuta di famiglia in Uruguay, e s'impicci di faccende – piuttosto scabrose, fra l'altro – che non lo riguardano. Ma Omar ha una fidanzata che ripone in lui consistenti aspettative, e lo mette, di fatto, sul primo aereo per il Sudamerica – ignorando di consegnarlo così, nel ruolo di amoroso, a tre consumati professionisti della dissimulazione. È solo l'inizio di una commedia brillante e feroce, dove nessuna combinazione di fatti, sentimenti o rivelazioni è esclusa in partenza: e la regia di Peter Cameron, alternando concessioni alla platea e battute al vetriolo, costruisce sotto i nostri occhi una scena perfetta, che sembra immaginata da Noël Coward o Tennessee Williams, ed è invece solo quella in cui viviamo.
