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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... believe . " I just retyped it . " ( So , how do I know it's a lie if I believe it ? I just retyped it . ) " But I- " " Okay , " I said , " I guess I was angry at James and everybody . " " And then , " Francis said , " you 42 KEVIN MCILVOY.
... believe . " I just retyped it . " ( So , how do I know it's a lie if I believe it ? I just retyped it . ) " But I- " " Okay , " I said , " I guess I was angry at James and everybody . " " And then , " Francis said , " you 42 KEVIN MCILVOY.
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... believe . We believe in her : her mind a glistening , lively , delicate web in a human spirit impregnable to the gusty wind , the night hauntings , the danger in speeding forward . She doesn't talk very much . To be truthful , she ...
... believe . We believe in her : her mind a glistening , lively , delicate web in a human spirit impregnable to the gusty wind , the night hauntings , the danger in speeding forward . She doesn't talk very much . To be truthful , she ...
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... believe I had the strength to leave without returning , and then I would believe that all the more myself , and he would hate me for that , wouldn't he ? He'd put his head halfway in the car window , his handsome pale mouth and chin ...
... believe I had the strength to leave without returning , and then I would believe that all the more myself , and he would hate me for that , wouldn't he ? He'd put his head halfway in the car window , his handsome pale mouth and chin ...
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