Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Name: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
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ISBN: 9780374309893

ISBN-10: 0374309892

ISBN-13: 9780374309893

Edition: 2007

Authors: Peter Cameron

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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,…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 9/18/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English