"Possibly one of the all-time great New York books, not to mention an archly comic gem" (Peter Gadol, LA Weekly), Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is the insightful, powerfully moving story of a young man questioning his times, his family, his world, and himself. 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. he would prefer to move to an old house in a small town somewhere in the Midwest. 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. James is eighteen, the child of divorced parents living in Manhattan. See also: Brown University Sexual orientation (confusion thereof) Dinner theater Poodles (standard).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.
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.
The engaging voice of our idiosyncratic antihero is deftly captured by the adroit prose of Peter Cameron. James’s 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. īut: as the summer gets hotter, James comes to recognize the wrenching truth of his emotions. In re: James Sveck–misunderstood by a capricious mother, a self-absorbed father, a mordant older sister,Įt alia: his Teutonic therapist, his D-list celebrity grandmother, his unnervingly attractive art gallery colleague. /rebates/2f97803743098932fPain-Will-Useful-Novel-Cameron-03743098922fplp&.
Then: he’ll start anew (move to the Midwest?). If: his future (i.e., college) seems completely meaningless, not to mention terrifying. IN RE: James Sveck–eighteen-year-old New Yorker, charming, precocious, confused, doesn’t quite fit in (doesn’t really want to),
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