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 , Peter Cameron paints an
indelible portrait of a teenage hero holding out for a better grownup
world.
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