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