As the inscription indicates, the recipient, who is named, is close to the author, and cannot be named here. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page.
This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, dated (one month before publication), and inscribed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by the author: "With affection and gratitude, Peter Cameron August 2007". An absolute "must-have" title for Peter Cameron collectors. 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. Jean Vigo, the Italian film production company named after the great Silent Era French auteur, adapted the novel. 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. The title is from Ovid, which Cameron uses as the first epigraph. "One of America's greatest writers, the living stylist I most revere" (Garth Greenwell). The novel possesses too much emotional complexity and artfulness of construction to exclude adult readers" (The New York Review of Books). A piece of vocal virtuosity, and possibly Cameron's best book. 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. As such, it also completely transcends its YA classification although we are, after all, talking here of literate and intelligent young readers. Promoted as a "Young Adult" title by his publisher, quite successfully so, thus becoming the author's most accessible and popular book. Presents Peter Cameron's "Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You". Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux/A Frances Foster Book, 2007.
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