WHAT HAPPENS AT NIGHT

New York City, NY: Catapult Press, 2020. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Catapult Press, 2020. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 301 pages. The author's seventh novel. One of Peter Cameron's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents Peter Cameron's "What Happens At Night ". Which the author likens to Daphne du Maurier's "Don't Look Now". Its insight into marriage also recalls early Ian McEwan, particularly "The Comfort of Strangers" (1981) as well as the author's own remarkable short story, "The Secret Dog": That marriage, consciously or unconsciously, is a trap that the partners willingly accept and actively undermine at the same time, infidelity being a pragmatic way of staying and straying, of relieving if not resolving its inherent tensions. Still, to allude to Peter Cameron's influences - which he himself openly acknowledges; he is a non-working literary critic with impeccable taste - is to underscore his inimitable brilliance, as paradoxical as that may sound. "Terrifying, comic, and heartbreaking. We do not always know whether we are in the realm of the real or the hallucinatory in this thrillingly mysterious and gorgeously written novel" (Sigrid Nunez) . "Faultlessly elegant and quietly menacing, like a tuxedo lined with knives. I can't think of another book at once so beautiful and so unnerving, so poised between miracle and disaster. Peter Cameron is one of America's greatest writers, the living stylist I most revere" (Garth Greenwell) . By now, it has become a banality to say of a writer like Peter Cameron that he is underrated and underappreciated, by readers, that is, who should know better because each of his books comes with genuine, sincerely felt praise from fellow writers, who do know better. An absolute "must-have" title for Peter Cameron collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. It comes, laid-in, with a 5 X 4 inch Bookplate and Souvenir Material that are both very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in blue ink-pen by Peter Cameron. Published in the pandemic year 2020, it was not possible for the author to make a public appearance. So as far as we know, this is the only copy (with Signed Bookplate and Souvenir Material) of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PETER CAMERON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1948226960.