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Title details for Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron - Available

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

by Peter Cameron
Lincoln Hoppe
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IN RE: James Sveck–eighteen-year-old New Yorker, charming, precocious, confused, doesn’t quite fit in (doesn’t really want to),
If: his future (i.e., college) seems completely meaningless, not to mention terrifying . . .  
Then: he’ll start anew (move to the Midwest?).
In re: James Sveck–misunderstood by a capricious mother, a self-absorbed father, a mordant older sister,
Et alia: his Teutonic therapist, his D-list celebrity grandmother, his unnervingly attractive art gallery colleague . . .
If: What one wants is enigmatic . . .
Then: Life can be hell.
But: as the summer gets hotter, James comes to recognize the wrenching truth of his emotions.
James’s archly comic bravado fuels this sharply observed novel of a teen adrift in an adult world, struggling to make sense of the problems of love and of lack. The engaging voice of our idiosyncratic antihero is deftly captured by the adroit prose of Peter Cameron. Often hilarious, deeply compassionate, smart, and lyrical, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is every bit as sui generis as James Sveck himself.
See also: Brown University; Sexual orientation (confusion thereof); Dinner theater; Poodles (standard).

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  • Release date

    November 4, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780739372548
      • File size: 204869 KB
      • Duration: 07:06:48

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 6
    • Lexile® Measure: 930
    • Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
    • Text Difficulty: 4-6

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Lincoln Hoppe walks a fine line in his performance. Some narrators might have mistakenly chosen to vocally depict James as whiny or, in the other direction, severely depressed. However, Hoppe elicits the complicated range of emotions that the young 18-year-old is grappling with throughout the story. The summer after graduating from high school, James finds himself despondent and directionless, utterly uninterested in the vibrant world of New York City. Slowly, his life spirals out of control as he retracts his decision to attend Brown University and behaves more erratically than ever. Therapy doesn't seem to help, and his mom is too busy getting married (and divorced) for the third time to notice what's going on with her son. L.E. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:6
  • Lexile® Measure:930
  • Interest Level:9-12(UG)
  • Text Difficulty:4-6

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