The Weekend

Outsiders complicate three friends reuniting in upstate New York on the anniversary of a friend's death in this "fascinating literary page-turner" (Los Angeles Times).

"A novel so moving that, on finishing it, we are convinced that something of importance has taken place. We feel deeply moved, and bereft." —Francine Prose, The Yale Review

On a midsummer weekend, in a country house in upstate New York, three friends, Lyle, Marian, and John, gather on the anniversary of the death of John's brother, who was also Lyle's lover. As Tony's absence haunts each of them in different ways, the reunion is complicated by the presence of Lyle's new lover, a much younger man named Robert, and a faux-Italian dinner guest with a penchant for truth telling. As the seemingly idyllic weekend proceeds, each character is stripped bare, and old memories and new desires create a chemistry that will transform them all.

"Echoes Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose brilliant narrative critiques of material culture open, again and again, to the metaphysical." —Joyce Reiser Kornblatt, The New York Times Book Review

"This brief novel confirms what readers of Far-Flung Stories . . . and Leap Year . . . have long suspected: Cameron is one of our very best writers." —Library Journal