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The Weekend
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““Maybe life is like a vacation. You know how on vacations you always pretend you’re having such a good time, but really—especially toward the end—you can’t wait to get home? All you want to do is get home and sleep in your bed. Maybe life is like that. Maybe you realize that at the end, and you just want to get back. Maybe we’re just on vacation and we don’t know it.”
picked this up a year or two ago because it was compared to Virginia Woolf’s writing and it is tiny, it fits in a purse! so I’ve read it on the train / around this last month. I loved this style of writing and the DRAMA it felt like I was watching an awkward and tense movie at parts
I would recommend it if you like reading books where nothing happens, but you get a pretty solid picture of how each characters’ mind works”
““Maybe life is like a vacation. You know how on vacations you always pretend you’re having such a good time, but really—especially toward the end—you can’t wait to get home?”
That’s the line that stuck out to me 15 years ago and secured this as one of my all-time favorites. Reading this book now, the line still makes an impact, and a bunch of other moments resonate even deeper than before. This is a lovely, breezy piece of melodrama that you’ll want to sink into.”
“So much good writing in such a small book - reads like a play”
“3.75⭐️
It is a short novel about grief. As I've come across this title in my researches, I wanted to read this example of AIDS literature... but AIDS is not really discussed as it not a novel on the experience of illness rather than one on grief. The alternance of chapters during the Weekend, in which Tony has been dead for a year, and chapters in which Tony is alive really shows the rapture of time when it comes to both AIDS and grief.
The vibes are perfect for summer. I would say perfect melancholy summer read.”
About Peter Cameron
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
one year later. His numerous award-winning stories for that magazine led to the publication of his first book,
(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
(1990) and
(2002), which was a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. Cameron lives in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.
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