Someday this pain will be useful to you
by Peter Cameron
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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 world and no idea how to live in it. James is eighteen, the child of divorced parents living in Manhattan. Articulate, sensitive, and cynical, he rejects all of the assumptions that govern the adult world around him–including the expectation that he will go to college in the fall. He would prefer to move to an old house in a small town somewhere in the Midwest. Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You takes place over a few broiling days in the summer of 2003 as James confides in his sympathetic grandmother, stymies his canny therapist, deplores his pretentious sister, and devises a fake online identity in order to pursue his crush on a much older coworker. Nothing turns out how he'd expected.
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Young adult fiction, Conduct of life, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Self-perception, Interpersonal relations, Young men, Adolescence, Children's fiction, Conduct of life, fiction, Self-perception, fiction, Interpersonal relations, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, LGBTQ young adult, New York Times reviewedPlaces
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Someday this pain will be useful to you
2009, Picador
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0312428162 9780312428167
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Someday this pain will be useful to you
2007, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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0374309892 9780374309893
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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
September 18, 2007, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
in English
0374309892 9780374309893
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