{"title":"Books by Peter Cameron","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"algun-dia-este-dolor-te-sera-util-4a-edicion-98-libros-del-asteroide","title":"Algún Día Este Dolor Te Será Útil - 4ª Edición: 98 (LIBROS DEL ASTEROIDE)","description":"\u003cp\u003eJames Sveck, the narrator of this novel, is an intelligent and precocious teenager who has finished high school and works during the summer at the art gallery his mother owns in Manhattan, where almost no one ever enters. Although he has been admitted to the prestigious Brown University, he is not sure he wants to go; what he really would like is to buy a house in the countryside and spend his days reading, undisturbed; he hates socializing with people his age, whom he avoids and with whom he feels he has nothing in common.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames’s narration offers us a sarcastic and amusing look at his confusing life, at how his dysfunctional family and his psychiatrist try in vain to help him, and at how he clumsily tries to make sense of things and break out of his isolation. Considered by American critics as one of the best novels published in recent years about New York, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is a sharp and moving novel about a young man capable of questioning himself, his family, and the time he has to live in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Insightful in giving weight to its narrator and the subtle way it shapes the scenes he stars in. The reader ends up identifying with James and thus learns something useful about the pain of youth.” José Luis de Juan (Babelia)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“We should celebrate the lucidity of this little novel so unusual in literature written for young audiences (highly recommended for adult readers) (…) It is so both because of the simplicity of its language, the fluidity of the plot, and its excellent characters and dialogues.” Carina Farreras (La Vanguardia)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Cameron has created a very believable and very contemporary Holden Caulfield. (…) A beautiful and lively novel about what the vital confusion of our time means.” Xesús Fraga (La Voz de Galicia)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A wonderful read that moves and unsettles, because it pulses with those uncertain emotions that accompany the rite of passage to adulthood.” Iñigo Urrutia (El Diario Vasco)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A small great novel, funny, moving, which—I confess from now on—I devoured in a single day.” Antonio Fontana (ABC)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is written with our blood, it belongs to all of us. Peter Cameron has built the foundations to support that fear, that loneliness that still makes us shudder. A necessary, indisputable book, a must-read. The best reflection on the 9\/11 attacks and possibly the 3\/11 attacks written to date. Perhaps it is time to celebrate, as the delightful Nanette would say, that we are still alive.” Pedro González (Librería Hipérbole, Ibiza)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Cameron paints an admirable fresco of a world, ours, incapable of being interested in itself, chasing only futile and trivial things. And he does it with dense, almost poetic prose, perfect dialogues, and an unforgettable character. A beautiful book from the title to the last page.” Valeria Parrella\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“James Sveck is a character of brilliant wit whose echo we will continue to hear once the story ends.” The Chicago Tribune\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The book fits into and at the same time breaks a great number of literary molds: coming-of-age novel, New York novel, and 9\/11 novel. From the first sentence, you will be hooked by its precocious and amusingly sad narrator.” The Boston Globe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It is his best work—it is sensational, heartbreaking, and funny. This novel shows all the virtues.” The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the best New York books of all time, a mischievously funny gem.” LA Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Delightfully vital from the first page (…) Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is a piece of oral virtuosity and possibly Cameron’s best book (…) It is not just a coming-of-age novel; it is surprisingly the most subtle novel written about September 11. It is so subtly skillful that one does not realize its true theme until three-quarters through the novel, and then its mention (…) rises from anxiety and gives the book a radiant light.” Lorrie Moore (The New York Review of Books)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“‘Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You’ is great. I say it, and so do Lorrie Moore and Jonathan Ames. (…) The wit with which Sveck describes his experiences and the small world around him will draw a permanent smile, make you laugh, and even burst into uncontrollable laughter. A really funny melancholic comedy, a strong candidate for book of the year.” Philipp Engel (Go Mag)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Libros Del Asteroide S L","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57188887495000,"sku":"9788492663545","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788492663545.jpg?v=1777240672"},{"product_id":"un-fin-de-semana-204-libros-del-asteroide","title":"Un fin de semana: 204 (Libros del Asteroide)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA summer weekend, in a country house, three friends gather on the first anniversary of Tony's death. They are his brother, John, his sister-in-law, Marian, and his former partner, Lyle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe peaceful reunion is disturbed by the presence of a stranger, the young painter who is now dating Lyle. Whether they like it or not, the summer rituals ―a swim in the river, an outdoor dinner with guests, or a nighttime walk― will be marked by the figure of the absent friend, and each of the three must find their own way to cope with the loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Cameron combines social satire with intimacy and tenderness like few authors, leading the reader to reflect on personal experience, the difficulty of truly knowing someone, and the ambiguity of social relationships. Originally published in 1994, Un fin de semana remains, without a doubt, one of the author’s best novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Un fin de semana explores how difficult it is to accept that the spouse of a deceased friend moves on with another partner. (…) And certainly Cameron studies this with detail and accuracy.” Núria Escur (La Vanguardia)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Peter Cameron is an excellent storyteller. Not only do his stories flow smoothly, but they leave traces of melancholy and a symbolic world built from normality rather than rhetoric.” César Prieto (Efe Eme)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Peter Cameron is many writers in one, because he distills the best of the great masters and transforms it, with elegance, into something his own.” Rodrigo Fresán (ABC Cultural)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Cameron demonstrates in Un fin de semana his skill in unfolding, from more or less minimal stories, the conflicts that arise from unresolved misunderstandings and ambiguities. In the end, as in his previous works, Un fin de semana is a kind of exploration of the difficulties of loving expression, the burdens of miscommunication, and the confusions that fuel social relationships.” Iñigo Urrutia (El Diario Vasco)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Peter Cameron returns in this book to speak about those cracks that open in everyday life. Cracks through which pain seeps subtly yet insistently. And he does so, as on other occasions, in a masterful way.” Sagrario Fdez.-Prieto (La Razón)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The setting gives rise to brilliant dialogues and an atmosphere of tension felt on every page. The small frictions are the scalpel that opens old wounds and fears, leaving expectations face to face with reality.” Leire Escalada (Navarra.com)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Peter Cameron weaves a perfect web that naturally traps the reader from the first pages. Un fin de semana is read quickly and enthusiastically, revealing much more than it seems.” Victoriano S. Álamo (Canarias 7)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Who hasn’t gone through these adjustments that death forces upon us? And therefore, who will come out unscathed from reading Un fin de semana by Peter Cameron? No one. Absolutely no one.” Fantastic Plastic Mag\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Peter Cameron offers us in Un fin de semana one of those everyday stories, seemingly simple but with great emotional weight (…) The American writer also addresses social conventions, such as how long one should mourn a loved one who is no longer here. When is the ideal time to recover? Does recovering mean a betrayal to the one who is gone or to their family? What right does the world have to judge us in this regard?” Eric Gras (Mediterrani)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A novel so moving that, upon finishing it, we are convinced that something important has just happened; it leaves us moved and stripped bare.” Francine Prose (The Yale Review)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Full of observations that ring like bells and flicker like fireflies, evanescent yet indelible.” The New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fascinating and addictive (…). We close the novel knowing better the complexity of each character, but also more aware of the intricate web underlying all social conventions.” Michael Dorris (Los Angeles Times)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Echoes of Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose brilliant critiques of materialistic culture repeatedly open to the metaphysical. Cameron’s tender elegy is as much a love song as a lament, as much a prayer as a requiem.” Joyce Reiser Kornblatt (The New York Times Book Review)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Libros Del Asteroide S L","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57188960469336,"sku":"9788417007553","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788417007553.jpg?v=1777241414"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.plasticbooks.uk\/en\/collections\/libros-peter-cameron.oembed","provider":"Plastic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}