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Gr 10-Up Cameron's first young adult novel is a "bildungsroman", a brief and situational portrait of 18-year-old James Sveck, a New York loner who dreams of bypassing college and settling down, solo, in the Midwest. James knows he's different: he doesn't really like people, especially those his age, and, following what he calls a "disastrous" experience at a national student seminar, concludes that he is better off alone. His sole attempt at connection reflects his reluctance and fear to relate to others and, ironicall...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

James Sveck is eighteen, slated to go to Brown in the fall, spending the summer working at his mother's outre Manhattan art gallery with John, a brilliant black aesthete and the only person James really likes besides his grandmother. It's Catcher in the Rye in a very different voice—witty, reflective, terse. The dialogue pings. Hear James vis-á-vis his well-meaning, distracted mother, just back from a third marriage, undone on the honeymoon; James vis-á-vis his earnest, executive-suite father, on the eve of an eye-lift; James vis-á-vis his sister,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Eighteen-year-old gay teen James wants to use his college money to buy a house in the Midwest. The heart of the matter is...Log In or Sign Up to Read More