How I Learned To Drive Av Paula Vogel

'The play is steeped in a gentle lyricism we associate with nostalgic portraits of American youth. The tone, the setting, the characters seem at first so familiar, so, well, normal, that it's only by degrees that we sense the poison within the pastels. By then we feel both locked into, and complicit with, this portrait of a warping relationship. That's the art of Drive.'--Ben Brantley, The New York Times Paula Vogel's widely celebrated masterpiece, How I Learned to Drive, winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and many other accolades, is published here for the first time as a stand-alone edition. Following a disjointed timeline of the twisted dynamics between Uncle Peck and his young niece L'il Bit, the story unfolds through her perspective, detailing the murky transformation she underwent. Known for its dark subject matter, the work demonstrates the result of child abuse on identity and the discovery of strength through trauma. Paula Vogel's play, How I Learned to Drive,