Itâs time for eighteen-year-old James Sveck to begin his freshman year at Brown. Instead, heâs surfing the real estate listings, searching for a sanctuaryâa nice farmhouse in Kansas, perhaps. Although James lives in twenty-first-century Manhattan, heâs more at home in the faraway worlds of Eric Rohmer or Anthony Trollopeâor his favorite writer, the obscure and tragic Denton Welch. Jamesâs 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 Jamesâs 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 âone of the best writers about middle-class youth since Salingerâ), Peter Cameron paints an indelible portrait of a teenage hero holding out for a better grownup world. Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Categories:
- LGBTQ+ Books
Publisher : Picador
Author : Cameron, Peter
Language : English
Edition : Picador ed.
Published :2009-04-28
Number Of Pages : 229
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0312428162
ISBN-13 : 9780312428167
Item weight : 0.45 lb
Dimensions : 1 in x 5.4 in x 8.1 in
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