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The City of Your Final Destination
A Novel
Author: Peter Cameron
The City of Your Final Destination
$24.00
About This Book
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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.
Although Caroline Gund, Jules' wife, and Arden Langdon, Jules' mistress and mother of his child, are initially opposed to the idea of a biography, Omar has the support of Adam, Jules' older brother, and hopes to be able to persuade the two women. Omar's unexpected arrival in Uruguay reverberates through this odd and isolated little family group, and his stay in the languid, dreamy Ochos Rios makes him question his former life in Kansas, and his ability-even his desire-to write an "authorized" life.
Imprint Publisher
Picador
ISBN
9780312656546
Reading Guide
In The News
“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 Chronicle
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The City of Your Final Destination