Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
by Peter Cameronliterary work· published 2007
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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.
Adaptations (1)
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You was adapted into a 2011 film.
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You2011 · film · 95 min · dir. Roberto Faenza · IMDb ↗Precocious yet sensitive teenager James has a deep perception of the world but no idea how to live in it. Finding no help from his divorced parents nor his older memoir-writing sister, he decides to reject the beliefs adults try to push on him, starting with the college career that is looming over his last summer in New York, and embarks instead on a search for wisdom through nontraditional means...
