SOMEDAY THIS PAIN WILL BE USEFUL TO YOU

New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux/A Frances Foster Book, 2007. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux/A Frances Foster Book, 2007. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 229 pages. The author's fifth novel. Peter Cameron's enchanting achievement. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Peter Cameron's "Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You". Promoted as a "Young Adult" title by his publisher, quite successfully so, thus becoming the author's most accessible and popular book. As such, it also completely transcends its YA classification although we are, after all, talking here of literate and intelligent young readers. They - and all serious readers - will warm to and not forget James Sveck, the Holden Caulfield-like protagonist - without that character's short-circuited self-absorption. "Deliciously vital right from the start. A piece of vocal virtuosity, and possibly Cameron's best book. The novel possesses too much emotional complexity and artfulness of construction to exclude adult readers" (The New York Review of Books). "One of America's greatest writers, the living stylist I most revere" (Garth Greenwell). The title is from Ovid, which Cameron uses as the first epigraph. By now, it has become a banality to say of a writer like Peter Cameron that he is underrated and underappreciated, by readers, that is, who should know better because each of his books comes with genuine, sincerely felt praise from fellow writers, who do know better. Jean Vigo, the Italian film production company named after the great Silent Era French auteur, adapted the novel. Directed by Roberto Faenza with an all-star cast in Marcia Gay Harden, Ellen Burstyn, Peter Gallagher, and Toby Regbo in a definitive performance as the charmingly irresistible James Sveck. An absolute "must-have" title for Peter Cameron collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Peter Cameron. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Laid-in is a pristine Souvenir Bookmark of the legendary bookstore which hosted the author's signing event. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are in multiple subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PETER CAMERON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374309892.