The Weekend: A Novel
Three friends gather for a midsummer weekend in a country house in upstate New York on the anniversary of the death of a man related to them all by ties of blood or love, but their sojourn is interrupted by the arrival of two outsiders. By the author of Leap Year.
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On a midsummer weekend, in a country house in upstate New York, three friends, Lyle, Marian, and John, gather on the anniversary of the death of John's brother, who was also Lyle's lover. As Tony's absence haunts each of them in different ways, the reunion is complicated by the presence of Lyle's new lover, a much younger man named Robert, and a faux-Italian dinner guest with a penchant for truth telling. As the seemingly idyllic weekend proceeds, each character is stripped bare, and old memories and new desires create a chemistry that will transform them all.
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