It is no surprise when John responds to this fake profile immediately. When James stumbles across this website and John's profile, he creates a profile of a fake person who is exactly what John is looking for. James' immediate supervisor, John Webster, is an attractive gay man who often uses the computers at work to search for a companion on dating sites. James Sveck works in his mother's art gallery where he spends the majority of his day with too much time on his hands. Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is a novel of self-exploration, of one teenager dealing not only with the perils of an uncharted future, but with the trauma of a past that he cannot face.
An anti-social person by choice, James makes a number of missteps in his attempts to become independent, creating a situation in which nothing seems to work out as James had thought it would. However, James finds himself dreaming of buying a house in the Midwest where he can live out his life in quiet solitude. In this novel, James Sveck has recently graduated from high school and is expected to attend Brown University in the fall. See also: Brown University Sexual orientation (confusion thereof) Dinner theater Poodles (standard).Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is a novel by writer 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. The engaging voice of our idiosyncratic antihero is deftly captured by the adroit prose of Peter Cameron. 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.
īut: as the summer gets hotter, James comes to recognize the wrenching truth of his emotions. In re: James Sveck–misunderstood by a capricious mother, a self-absorbed father, a mordant older sister,Įt alia: his Teutonic therapist, his D-list celebrity grandmother, his unnervingly attractive art gallery colleague. Then: he’ll start anew (move to the Midwest?). If: his future (i.e., college) seems completely meaningless, not to mention terrifying. IN RE: James Sveck–eighteen-year-old New Yorker, charming, precocious, confused, doesn’t quite fit in (doesn’t really want to),
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