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Peter Cameron
author profile
born
November 29, 1959
gender
male
place of birth
Pompton Plains, New Jersey, The United States
website
genre
Literature & Fiction, Gay & Lesbian
influences
Rose Macaulay, Barbara Pym, Penelope Mortimer, Elizabeth Taylor, William Maxwell, Shirley Hazzard, James Salter, and Denton Welch
about this author
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Peter Cameron has written short stories and novels, has worked in publishing and non-profit administration, and has taught writing.
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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron avg rating 3.76 — 958 ratings — published 2007 5 editions |
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The City of Your Final Destination by Peter Cameron avg rating 4.07 — 91 ratings — published 2002 5 editions |
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The Weekend by Peter Cameron avg rating 3.77 — 80 ratings — published 1994 6 editions |
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Andorra by Peter Cameron avg rating 3.54 — 78 ratings — published 1997 5 editions |
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Leap Year by Peter Cameron avg rating 3.18 — 44 ratings — published 1990 5 editions |
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The Half You Don't Know: Selected Stories by Peter Cameron avg rating 4.12 — 32 ratings — published 1997 |
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One Way or Another by Peter Cameron avg rating 4.18 — 11 ratings — published 1986 2 editions |
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Far-Flung: Stories by Peter Cameron avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 1991 |
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Why Preach: Encountering Christ in God's Word by Peter Cameron avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2009 |
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Paura della Matematica by Peter Cameron, Luciana Bianciardi avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2008 |
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"What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by. How do you know...I felt that by walking away I was abandoning [them], that I spent my entire life, day after day, abandoning people."
— Peter Cameron (Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You)
— Peter Cameron (Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You)
"People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very deep. It may seem a misfortune now, and it makes things difficult, but well--it's easy to feel all the happy, simple stuff. Not that happiness is necessarily simple. But I don't think you're going to have a life like that, and I think you'll be the better for it. The difficult thing is to not be overwhelmed by the bad patches. You must not let them defeat you. You must see them as a gift--a cruel gift, but a gift nonetheless."
— Peter Cameron (Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You)
— Peter Cameron (Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You)
"I often feel like I want to think something but I can't find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt, not thought. Sometimes I feel like I'm thinking in Swedish without knowing Swedish."
— Peter Cameron (Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You)
— Peter Cameron (Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You)
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