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Highlights
- The City of Your Final Destination is a touching, clever and wonderfully comic novel from Peter Cameron, now a major motion picture starring Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney, and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
- About the Author: Peter Cameron is the author of Andorra, The City of Your Final Destination, and Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You.
- 320 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
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Book Synopsis
The City of Your Final Destination is a touching, clever and wonderfully comic novel from Peter Cameron, now a major motion picture starring Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney, and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Omar Razaghi posts a letter on September 13, 1995 that will change the course of his life forever. A doctoral student at the University of Kansas, he writes to the estate of the Latin American author Jules Gund, requesting permission to write Gund's authorized biography. His request is refused, but Omar has already accepted a fellowship from the university, and with his girlfriend's vehement encouragement, he goes in person to Uruguay to petition to Gund's three executors.
Review Quotes
"Delightful, unexpected, magical, romantic, and fraught with adorable entanglements." --Ann Pritchard, USA Today
"Subtle, affectingly, erotically traces the beginnings, the hesitations, the advances of a love affair." --Richard Eder, The New York Times "A lightly comic novel as splendid as Peter Cameron's The City of Your Final Destination is a cause for celebration." --James Schiff, The News and Observer (Raleigh) "A very worthy, and eminently readable, addition to Cameron's graceful, witty, and insightful body of work . . . A finely crafted novel [that] continues to surprise until the final pages." --Chris Lehmann, The Washington Post "Cameron draws this sweet novel to one of the most satisfying denouements in recent memory." --John Freeman, San Francisco ChronicleAbout the Author
Peter Cameron is the author of Andorra, The City of Your Final Destination, and Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Grand Street, and The Paris Review. He lives in New York City