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Peter Cameron

Born

in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, The United States

November 29, 1959

Website

http://www.peter-cameron.com/

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Genre

Literature & Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

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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.

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*The Harness Room by L. P. Hartley (Hamish Hamilton, 1971...

*The Harness Room by L. P. Hartley (Hamish Hamilton, 1971)

This intense, short novel reminded me very much of Joycelyn Brook's The Scapegoat. Both novels are about a young, sensitive, passive boy who is entrusted to a macho military man in order to be masculinized. And both transformations end up killing the boy as a result of homosexual attraction -- mostly repressed in The Scapegoat but ov

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Average rating: 3.75 · 33,730 ratings · 3,921 reviews · 29 distinct works • Similar authors

	Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You 3.73 avg rating — 21,363 ratings — published 2007 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quella sera dorata by Peter Cameron, Alberto Rossatti (Translator) 3.86 avg rating — 2,308 ratings — published 2002 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Happens at Night 3.57 avg rating — 1,976 ratings — published 2020 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Weekend 3.69 avg rating — 1,375 ratings — published 1994 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coral Glynn 3.33 avg rating — 1,458 ratings — published 2012 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Andorra 3.67 avg rating — 920 ratings — published 1997 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anno bisestile by Peter Cameron, Giuseppina Oneto (translator) 3.57 avg rating — 588 ratings — published 1990 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gli inconvenienti della vita by Peter Cameron, Giuseppina Oneto (Translator) 3.64 avg rating — 562 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paura della matematica by Peter Cameron, Luciana Bianciardi (Translator) 3.47 avg rating — 233 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Half You Don't Know 4.07 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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