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 165
... front and back each fall . Just about the whole neighborhood turned out to watch the three experts , who wore identical gray work jumpers , and who earned twenty - five dollars each . We knew what the cost was because every year ...
... front and back each fall . Just about the whole neighborhood turned out to watch the three experts , who wore identical gray work jumpers , and who earned twenty - five dollars each . We knew what the cost was because every year ...
Page 217
... front of Mother and put Father on a lift . If your eye is ready , your guts tell you not to choose Mother and Father together in one shot . You try to pose . This is the first time you get behind your lens . Here's part of what I mean ...
... front of Mother and put Father on a lift . If your eye is ready , your guts tell you not to choose Mother and Father together in one shot . You try to pose . This is the first time you get behind your lens . Here's part of what I mean ...
Page 240
... front and back yards of its homes were trees humbled by bad soil . At Number 795 an R & R Real Estate sign lay facedown in my front yard . Rickee had explained to me that the first and last Rs were her : the Rickee who versified , and ...
... front and back yards of its homes were trees humbled by bad soil . At Number 795 an R & R Real Estate sign lay facedown in my front yard . Rickee had explained to me that the first and last Rs were her : the Rickee who versified , and ...
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