Notes on Counting: An Introduction to Enumerative Combinator, Cameron Peter J

Автор: Cameron Peter
Название: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
ISBN: 0374309892 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374309893
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
Цена: 1996 р.
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.

Описание: 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. ""

Автор: Cameron Peter
Название: Someday this pain will be useful to you
ISBN: 0312428162 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312428167
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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Цена: 2245 р.
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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.

"Possibly one of the all-time great New York books, not to mention an archly comic gem" (Peter Gadol, "LA Weekly"), "Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You" is the insightful, powerfully moving story of a young man questioning his times, his family, his world, and himself."