Susan K. Perry
Autore di Writing in Flow: Keys to Enhanced Creativity
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Susan K. Perry, Ph.D., is a social psychologist and an award-winning writer. She has written more than 700 articles for publications such as Seventeen, Teen, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, Child, and Parenting, and she writes a nationally syndicated book review column for L.A. Parent. She mostra altro teaches writing through the extension departments of UCLA, UC Irvine, California State University Fullerton, and others, as well as online for Writer's Digest. She also teaches psychology at Woodbury University. She lives in Los Angeles mostra meno
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- 8
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- 325
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- #72,884
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- 3.1
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- 12
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Kylie is on her second marriage and her son, Dorian, is graduating from high school. Kylie is a writer but her writing doesn’t bring in a lot of money and she keeps telling herself she should get a “real job”. First, though, she wants to spend Dorian’s last summer doing things with him and then when he goes off to university she will start looking for a job. Then Dorian breaks the news that he is going to go to Africa to work with a mission that Kylie’s twin sister, Phoebe, is involved with. Kylie protests that it isn’t safe but everyone else, including her husband, Flann, tells her that it will be a great experience.
Although Phoebe and Kylie are twins they are not identical and, in fact, they are as different emotionally as can be. Kylie is an atheist and very practical. Phoebe belongs to an evangelical church and doesn’t worry about material things. When their grandfather died and left them an inheritance Phoebe spent it on a fast car and a spiritual quest. Kylie finished university and then bought a house that had rental properties adjoining it. Kylie writes an advice column called A Rational Woman. Examples of the column punctuate the book.
I don’t want to spoil the narrative but suffice it to say that Kylie’s life falls to pieces. How she handles it is perhaps not rational but it is human. This is a first novel for Perry but I found it well-constructed and well-edited, something that escapes a lot of first timers. I would certainly read something by Perry again.… (altro)