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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. In the tradition of The Catcher in the Rye and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Booklist has hailed Cameron as “one of the best writers about middle-class youth since Salinger”), Peter Cameron paints an indelible portrait of a teenage hero holding out for a better grownup world. - Publisher's summary

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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

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James Svek doesn't really fit in. He isn't interested in the same things as other eighteen-year-old guys, doesn't even like people his age, and even keeps his family at a distance.

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His family isn’t much help. His father consents to eating a toke...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 15 11:17:46 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 11:36:43 -0700 2009 By: Peter Cameron
Publisher: first picador
ISBN: 10:0-312-42816-2
Pages: 229
Enter the life of James Sveck, an average 18 year old who just finished high school and whose parents are making him attend college. He lives in New York wi...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=235466