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. 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. Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is the story of James Sveck, a sophisticated, vulnerable young man with a deep appreciation for the. 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. 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. I suppose this is why people always want other people to say 'I love you. Instead, he's surfing the real estate listings, searching for a sanctuary-a nice farmhouse in Kansas, perhaps. Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You 66 likes Like Most people think things are not real unless they are spoken, that it's the uttering of something, not the thinking of it, that legitimizes it. It's time for eighteen-year-old James Sveck to begin his freshman year at Brown.
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