Someone

  • Someone
    By Alice McDermott

    Fragments of a curious childhood, of adolescent sexual awakenings, of motherhood and, finally, old age are pieced together in this resonant story of an unremarkable, unforgettable woman.

  • Someone: The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Colette to Hervé Guibert
    By Michael Lucey

    In Someone, Michael Lucey considers characters from twentieth-century French literary texts whose sexual forms prove difficult to conceptualize or represent.

  • Someone: The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Colette to Hervé Guibert
    By Michael Lucey

    For Peirce, Ralph Pepperill is a sign with an object—“that by which the sign is essentially determined in its significant characters in the mind of the utterer” (409). The person who hears the utterance has to construct some version of ...

  • Someone: A Novel
    By Alice McDermott

    His collar was unbuttoned and his hair was askew—anyone else would have thought he'd been sleeping—and there was an uncharacteristic stoop to his shoul— ders, as if he were prepared for some blow. “My Lord,” he said, “what is it?

  • Someone: A Story of Acceptance
    By Jay Ostrowski, Bodie Ostrowski

    Why is finding a friend to play with so hard? That’s what Someone wants to know! All the other kids in his class have playmates, but not Someone. Without a friend, all Someone can do is watch the fun from the sidelines.