One Way or Another
Leap Year
Far-flung
The Weekend
The Half You Don't Know
Andorra
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Peter Cameron is the author of several novels, including
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
and
Andorra
. He lives in New York City.
THE CITY OF YOUR FINAL DESTINATION. Copyright © 2002 by Peter Cameron.
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A portion of this novel originally appeared in
The Yale Review
First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Designed by Jonathan D. Lippincott
eISBN 9781429927154
First eBook Edition : March 2011
The Library of Congress has cataloged the
Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition as follows:
Cameron, Peter, 1959â
The city of your final destination / Peter Cameron.â1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-374-28197-7
1. Biography as an art formâFiction. 2. AmericansâUruguayâFiction. 3. Graduate studentsâFiction. 4. BiographersâFiction. 5. UruguayâFiction. 6. KansasâFiction. I. Title.
PS3553.A4344 C58 2002
813'.54âdc21
2001051127
Picador ISBN 978-0-312-65654-6
First Picador Edition: September 2010