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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Page 137
... didn't talk about money . I didn't listen when kids told what they got the bicycles and tennis rackets and things . That's part of what you do , you don't listen or look or imagine too much . I bet our bait's gone . " " I guess you got ...
... didn't talk about money . I didn't listen when kids told what they got the bicycles and tennis rackets and things . That's part of what you do , you don't listen or look or imagine too much . I bet our bait's gone . " " I guess you got ...
Page 208
... didn't wait long after I sat down to saw a leg off my chair . “ Dad , maybe now might be the time— before I go away and all . " He didn't say what it might be time for . Ben was careful with words , and I think he was quietly choosing ...
... didn't wait long after I sat down to saw a leg off my chair . “ Dad , maybe now might be the time— before I go away and all . " He didn't say what it might be time for . Ben was careful with words , and I think he was quietly choosing ...
Page 236
... didn't hold each other or cry or reach some dramatic moment of rosy , patriotic rec- onciliation . That would make a better story , but we didn't do that . He said , " Makes the whole thing over . For today . " Now , I put some of the ...
... didn't hold each other or cry or reach some dramatic moment of rosy , patriotic rec- onciliation . That would make a better story , but we didn't do that . He said , " Makes the whole thing over . For today . " Now , I put some of the ...
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