Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron

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.

Associate Prof. Dr. Guenter Tiess is managing director of MinPol, Agency for international Mineral Policy. MinPol is also running an international network of experts of every branch in the field of minerals policy that is continuously growing (www.minpol.com). The network is already by now covering almost all continents, which emphasises the world-wide approach of MinPol. An economy geologist by training (PhD, Habilitation), he has more than fifteen years of experience in research on focused on international mineral policy, mining and sustainability (Montanuniversitaet Leoben [2002 - 2014]; Technical University of Ostrava [since 2015]; since 2011, close relationship with the Department of Mining Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Peter Cameron is Professor of International Energy Law and Policy and Director of the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee in Scotland UK (www. http: //www.dundee.ac.uk/cepmlp/staff/pcameron.php). He is a barrister (Middle Temple) and door tenant at Tanfield Chambers, London. Peter is the author or editor of more than a dozen books and over a hundred articles, including the sole authored monograph, 'International Energy Investment Law: the Pursuit of Stability' (Oxford University Press, 2010). He is also joint editor of the online Encyclopaedia of Mining and Energy Policy (Springer). He was senior coordinator of the World Bank funded project on Good Practice in the extractives industries, entitled Oil, Gas and Mining: The Extractive Industries Source Book (www.eisourcebook.org). He has often worked as an advisor or consultant to governments, particularly in the developing world and emerging markets, and to international organisations. Peter is frequently instructed as an expert witness in arbitration proceedings, and has given oral testimony before the ICC, the Stockholm Chambers of Commerce, the London Court of International Arbitration and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre. He has regularly advised the Energy Charter Secretariat, most recently on the introduction of amendments to address low carbon issues, and is a member of its Legal Sub-Committee. In 2013 Peter was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Tapan Majumder is a former Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Geology, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India. Currently he is a technical consultant at Himadri Chemical and Industries, Calcutta as well as an environmental consultant on mining, geology and geohydrology at Grass Roots Research and Creation, New Delhi.

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ISBN 13	9780374309893
ISBN 10	0374309892
Title	Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Author	Peter Cameron
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Farrar Straus Giroux
Year published	2007-09-18
Number of pages	229
Prizes	Winner of Triangle Awards (Fiction-Male) 2008, Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Children/Young Adult) 2007, Commended for Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (Fourteen and Up) 2008
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