Little PegPerennial, 2000 - 250 pages Peg O'Crerieh is a wife, mother, creative writing instructor, and occasional resident of the Everview Residential Treatment Center, which she is once again preparing to leave. Awaiting Peg at home are her devoted family; the normal pressures of daily life; and, most important, the students in her Nontraditional English class, where the assignment is always to write about Peg. As Peg Struggles to find her place in the outside world, she finds herself drawn into her student's stories. Usurping their material, revising their facts, Peg slowly inches toward the truth until she is finally able to leave behind.? By turns brilliantly comic and achingly sad, "Little Peg, is a portrait of a single woman, in extremis and in exultation, and of a life transformed by the retrospective powers of a gifted writer. |
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... James's house , to my own apart- ment and then back to James's house many times in our years of marriage . The night before I moved out permanently , James was so silent in his sleep that I suspected he was awake . " James ? " I asked ...
... James's house , to my own apart- ment and then back to James's house many times in our years of marriage . The night before I moved out permanently , James was so silent in his sleep that I suspected he was awake . " James ? " I asked ...
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... James's Nova . Thank you , James . And what are you going to do about it ? I thought , looking at the front door with its decorative carved tiger doorknock . I remembered the pretend James I had made when James himself was in Vietnam ...
... James's Nova . Thank you , James . And what are you going to do about it ? I thought , looking at the front door with its decorative carved tiger doorknock . I remembered the pretend James I had made when James himself was in Vietnam ...
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... James and Molly out of the room when we came in . I heard her say , " You want one to take with you ? " I found what ... James were leaving , James asked me if I was going to need anything else . Because I couldn't think of anything , we ...
... James and Molly out of the room when we came in . I heard her say , " You want one to take with you ? " I found what ... James were leaving , James asked me if I was going to need anything else . Because I couldn't think of anything , we ...
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