Often hilarious, deeply compassionate, smart, and lyrical, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is every bit as sui generis as James Sveck himself. Peter Cameron is the author of several novels, including Andorra, The Weekend, and Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You. In October 2007, Camerons young adult novel Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You was published, and in October 2012 it was adapted into a film of the same name. The engaging voice of our idiosyncratic antihero is deftly captured by the adroit prose of Peter Cameron. James archly comic bravado fuels this sharply observed novel of a teen adrift in an adult world, struggling to make sense of the problems of love and of lack. Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is the story of James. James Sveck is misunderstood by a capricious mother, a self-absorbed father, a mordant older sister, his Teutonic therapist, his D-list celebrity grandmother, his unnervingly attractive art gallery colleague.īut: as the summer gets hotter, James comes to recognize the wrenching truth of his emotions. Buy Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron for 43.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. Then: he'll start anew (move to the Midwest?). If his future (i.e., college) seems completely meaningless, not to mention terrifying. James Sveck, 18-year-old New Yorker, charming, precocious, confused, doesn't quite fit in (doesn't really want to).
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