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This startling, beautiful novel set in South America explores the mysterious concepts of love and home.
Omar has won an award to write the authorised biography of a celebrated yet obscure writer, Jules Gund, author of ‘The Gondola’. It only remains for him to obtain permission from Gund’s literary executors: his widow, his mistress and his brother. Their lives still revolve around Ochos Rios, a dilapidated mansion in Uruguay that Gund’s parents built after fleeing Nazi Germany. The three cannot agree to approve the work – although Adam Gund feels sure this will not stop Omar, because biographers are clever, vindictive, ruthless people.
If Omar cannot reverse the executors’ decision, he will lose his award, his job and, perhaps, his redoubtable girlfriend. Not allowing himself time for reflection, Omar acts on instinct and flies to Uruguay. There, he disturbs the uneasy intimacy of the world Gund has left behind and changes it forever.
A writer of unusual restraint and sly humour, Peter Cameron brings a light touch to this romantic, moving story.
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‘Light, moving, revealing of human desires and needs, and ultimately of human goodness.’ Lucia Graves, Daily Telegraph
‘“The City of Your Final Destination” is suavely, almost languidly written; the elegant skimming prose conjures up social and cultural divisions, though the love story provides some surprising twists and turns...the overall effect is of a pleasurable melancholy, a sophisticated, slightly old-fashioned romance.’ Lindsay Duguid, Sunday Times
Author of the highly acclaimed The Weekend and Andorra (both published by Fourth Estate) Peter Cameron has also written for The New Yorker, Grand Street, and The Paris Review. He lives in New York.
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- EditoreFourth Estate
- Data di pubblicazione2002
- ISBN 10 1857029720
- ISBN 13 9781857029727
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine320
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. London. Fourth Estate. 2002. First Edition/First Printing. (1 in number line on copyright page). Hard Cover. Black cloth boards with gilt spine titles and red endpapers. Illustrated unclipped dust wrapper protected in mylar. Both book and jacket are new. Flat signed by the author on tipped in paste down without dedication to the title page. A novel about the random nature of love, and the ways in which we confront or avoid life's choices, Jules Grund, the painter, died leaving Susan and Portia, his wife and daughter; Caroline, his mistress who paints and then destroys forgeries; and his brother, Adam who lives with his lover, Peter. Truths are revealed as Omar unravels the truth of Grund's life and his family. Please have a look at our wide selection of new, signed first editions; a must for the hypermodern collector. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo DEC13KH035
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