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Coming-of-age tale with a dislocated protagonist.

For anyone who's ever felt out of step with the world, Peter Cameron's novel could resonate deeply. With a narrative that captures the uncertainty and yearning for escape typical to many teenagers, this book gives voice to the feelings of dislocation and the quest for identity. James Sveck is remarkably relatable, and his emotional journey is one that, while uniquely his, offers a sense of camaraderie for anyone who's struggled to find where they fit.

  • Ferro-Grumley Award for Gay Fiction (2008)
  • Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Children's/Young Adult (2007)
  • The Publishing Triangle Award for The Ferro-Grumley Awards (2008)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

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ISBN: 9780374309893
Authors: Peter Cameron
Publisher: Frances Foster
Date of Publication: 2007-09-18
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Young Adult, Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 3.71
(rated by 29322 readers)

Description

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.
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Coming-of-age tale with a dislocated protagonist.

For anyone who's ever felt out of step with the world, Peter Cameron's novel could resonate deeply. With a narrative that captures the uncertainty and yearning for escape typical to many teenagers, this book gives voice to the feelings of dislocation and the quest for identity. James Sveck is remarkably relatable, and his emotional journey is one that, while uniquely his, offers a sense of camaraderie for anyone who's struggled to find where they fit.

  • Ferro-Grumley Award for Gay Fiction (2008)
  • Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Children's/Young Adult (2007)
  • The Publishing Triangle Award for The Ferro-Grumley Awards (2008)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.