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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel by Peter Cameron, Peter Cameron is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel about?
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.
Who reads Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Peter Cameron, Peter Cameron
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780312428167
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Children'S, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.68 / 5 (7,498 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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