- Young adult fiction, Conduct of life, Juvenile fiction, Fiction
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.
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Intimate, contemporary, classical in form and character-led.
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Peter Cameron
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 235
- Publisher
- Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780312428167
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