Someday this pain will be useful to you /

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 wor...

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Main Author:	Cameron, Peter, 1959- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Conduct of life > Juvenile fiction. Interpersonal relations > Juvenile fiction. Self-perception > Juvenile fiction. New York (N.Y.) > Juvenile fiction. Conduct of life > Fiction. Interpersonal relations > Fiction. Self-perception > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > Fiction. Conduct of life. Interpersonal relations. Self-perception. New York (State) > New York. Young adult books. Young adult works. Fiction. Juvenile works. Didactic fiction.
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Summary:	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 description. Eighteen-year-old James living in New York City with his older sister and divorced mother struggles to find a direction for his life.
Item Description:	"Frances Foster Books." The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy is signed by the author.
Physical Description:	229 pages ; 22 cm
Audience:	Young Adult.
ISBN:	0374309892 9780374309893 9780312428167 0312428162