Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. A beautiful copy -- appears unread. INSCRIBED/SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the half title page: "For John -- with all best wishes -- Peter Cameron." AS NEW condition in AS NEW dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NOT price clipped ($16.00). Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. NO remainder mark. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Dazzling, critically-acclaimed coming-of-age novel. Bound in the original gray boards lettered in metallic red on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "'Not since THE CATCHER IN THE RYE has a novel captured the deep and almost physical ache of adolescent existential sadness as trenchantly as the perfectly titled SOMEDAY THIS PAIN WILL BE USEFUL TO YOU. You don't have to be eighteen to relate to James Dunfour Sveck and his sense of alienation from a world he doesn't understand, nor to be profoundly moved by his story. Told with compassion, insight, humor, and hope, SOMEDAY THIS PAIN WILL BE USEFUL TO YOU deserves to be read by readers of all ages for years to come. I would have loved it as a teenager, and I love it now.' --James Howe, author of THE MISFITS. 'One of the all-time great New York books, not to mention an archly comic gem.' -- LA WEEKLY. 'With its off-balance marriage of the comedic and the deeply painful, its sympathetic embrace of its characters and its hard-won hope, this smart and elegantly written novel merits a wide readership.' -- Starred, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.". INSCRIBED/SIGNED by the AUTHOR. Later printing. Hard Cover. As New condition/As New dust jacket. Illus. by Colvin, Jay (jacket design).…