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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

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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.

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English
Pages
240

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Cover of: Someday this pain will be useful to you
Someday this pain will be useful to you
2009, Picador
in English - 1st Picador ed.
Cover of: Someday this pain will be useful to you
Someday this pain will be useful to you
2007, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- 1st ed.
Cover of: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
September 18, 2007, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
in English

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OL7423451M
ISBN 10
0374309892
ISBN 13
9780374309893
Library Thing
1667841
Goodreads
235466

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July 30, 2019 Edited by MARC Bot associate edition with work OL1841423W
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