It's time for eighteen-year-old James Sveck to begin his freshman year at Brown. Instead, he's surfing the real estate listings, searching for a sanctuary—a nice farmhouse in Kansas, perhaps. Although James lives in twenty-first-century Manhattan, he's more at home in the faraway worlds of Eric Rohmer or Anthony Trollope—or his favorite writer, the obscure and tragic Denton Welch. James's sense of dislocation is exacerbated by his willfully self-absorbed parents, a disdainful sister, his Teutonically cryptic shrink, and an increasingly vague, D-list celebrity grandmother. Compounding matters is James's growing infatuation with a handsome male colleague at the art gallery his mother owns, where James supposedly works at his summer job but where he actually plots his escape to the prairie.
In the tradition of The Catcher in the Rye and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Booklist has hailed Cameron as “one of the best writers about middle-class youth since Salinger”), Peter Cameron paints an indelible portrait of a teenage hero holding out for a better grownup world.
In the tradition of The Catcher in the Rye and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Booklist has hailed Cameron as “one of the best writers about middle-class youth since Salinger”), Peter Cameron paints an indelible portrait of a teenage hero holding out for a better grownup world.
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Hardback Editions
September 2007 : Hardback
| Title: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You Author(s): Peter Cameron ISBN: 0-374-30989-2 / 978-0-374-30989-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
June 2008 : Paperback
| Title: Someday This Pain Will be Useful to You Author(s): Peter Cameron ISBN: 1-921372-14-1 / 9781921372148 (Australia edition) Publisher: Scribe Publications Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
2007 : Paperback
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Audio Editions
November 2008 : Audio CD
| Title: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You Author(s): Peter Cameron ISBN: 0-7393-7289-0 / 978-0-7393-7289-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Listening Library (Audio) Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
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