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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... everything was rung up , Dad had the bag boy bring him the pie . It must have been hot on the bottom and hotter on the edges because Dad shifted it in his hands , rushing us to the car . By now it was five - thirty in the evening ...
... everything was rung up , Dad had the bag boy bring him the pie . It must have been hot on the bottom and hotter on the edges because Dad shifted it in his hands , rushing us to the car . By now it was five - thirty in the evening ...
Page 166
... Everything went quiet between us . Inside my own silence , I made up what happened next . Ben asked , " He gave you his cap ? " I said , " Yeah . But , look - here , you take it . ' He put it on his head . " Hey , thanks , " he said ...
... Everything went quiet between us . Inside my own silence , I made up what happened next . Ben asked , " He gave you his cap ? " I said , " Yeah . But , look - here , you take it . ' He put it on his head . " Hey , thanks , " he said ...
Page 190
... everything — with Peggy and the baby and everything . " " Me too , " he said . She sat at the table across from him . She pulled in her chair and looked at Anthony's hands . When her children were born , their tiny , vulnerable hands ...
... everything — with Peggy and the baby and everything . " " Me too , " he said . She sat at the table across from him . She pulled in her chair and looked at Anthony's hands . When her children were born , their tiny , vulnerable hands ...
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