Coral Glynn: A Novel
Cameron specializes in emotional subtlety and unspoken desires—all the while hinting at an almost overwhelming disorder swirling beneath the placid surface. Cameron is unusual in his direct debt to great midcentury British novelists like Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabeth Bowen, and Barbara Pym, who seem quiet precisely because they take the unspeakable as their subject. We may be so slow to recognize Cameron as a twenty-first-century American master because he has the sensibility of a twentieth-century British one. —Christopher R. Beha