Peter Cameron Livres

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.

Focusing on recent advancements in permutation groups, this book serves as an introductory guide tailored for beginning graduate students. It presents key concepts and developments in the field, making complex topics accessible for those new to the subject. Through clear explanations and structured content, readers will gain a solid foundation in permutation group theory.

«Violence and the Kingdom» is a history of the interpretation of perhaps the most enigmatic of the sayings of Jesus - Matthew 11:12 - from the times of the Fathers to the present day; together with an analysis of the difficulties and an attempt at a solution.

This startling, beautiful novel set in South America explores the mysterious concepts of love and home. schovat popis

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.