3 Novels by Peter Cameron
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Overview: Peter Cameron (b. 1959) is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Born in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, he moved to New York City after graduating college in 1982. Cameron began publishing stories in the New Yorker one year later. His numerous award-winning stories for that magazine led to the publication of his first book, One Way or Another (1986), which received a special citation for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a First Book of Fiction. He has since focused on writing novels, including Leap Year (1990) and The City of Your Final Destination (2002), which was a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. Cameron lives in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.
Genre: Fiction/Classic
Leap Year: It is 1988, just two years away from "the decade of friendship," and there is still time on the clock for all the greed and need of the 80s to wreak havoc on the lives of this ensemble cast of distressed but endearing New Yorkers. With razor sharp wit and great comic invention, Leap Year charts the uneasy paths people take around the physical and emotional land mines of city life. The score of quirky characters ricochet back and forth between downtown lofts, art galleries, health clubs, restaurants–even a sperm bank–in the attempt to discover fame, fortune, and true love. In this leap year, however, everything seems slightly awry, as unexpected affairs, an accidental kidnapping, catering disasters, murder, and a regrettable amount of bad publicity turns everyone’s lives upside down. Peter Cameron’s Leap Year is a comic valentine to a frenzied era, serving up the lusts and laments of an entire generation with great wit and affection.
With its large and lively cast of gay and straight characters, Leap Year is a comic satire with the same appeal as Armistad Maupin’s Tales of the City novels.
Coral Glynn: 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.
Far-Flung(Stories): The characters in these terse, elliptical tales are burdened by the knowledge that something is missing from their lives. Cut off from a usable past and isolated from one another, they flounder about, desperately seeking someone or something with which to connect. In "Just Relax," a young woman leaving the Peace Corps takes a job as a Pilgrim at a Massachusetts theme park. "The Secret Dog" concerns a man who invents an imaginary pet to compensate for an unhappy marriage. While Cameron’s stories typically involve young urbanites, some of the best here are set in a small Indiana town. Notable is "The Winter Bazaar," an achingly sad tale in which an old, empty house becomes a symbol of the peace and contentment denied to two lovers. Always stylish and often affecting, Cameron’s work belongs in all collections of contemporary fiction.
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