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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... hear it ? " " The poem ? " asks Francis . " Great , " I say . " Certain ? " " Sure . " Francis and I lean against the door . We can hear Rickee rattle some papers , scrape a chair across the Little Peg ་ 7.
... hear it ? " " The poem ? " asks Francis . " Great , " I say . " Certain ? " " Sure . " Francis and I lean against the door . We can hear Rickee rattle some papers , scrape a chair across the Little Peg ་ 7.
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... hear her heart , which sounds like mine . A samba . Francis is so much like me I could have made her up . When I'm ... hear behind him and the Peg I hear there in the jungle at 92.2 FM ? I wake up but I don't have to open my eyes because ...
... hear her heart , which sounds like mine . A samba . Francis is so much like me I could have made her up . When I'm ... hear behind him and the Peg I hear there in the jungle at 92.2 FM ? I wake up but I don't have to open my eyes because ...
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... hear her sighing . This doesn't make any sense , but that reminded me of how my dad would hold his pocket watch in his left palm and rock the stem back and forth between his thumb and the very tip of the index finger of his right hand ...
... hear her sighing . This doesn't make any sense , but that reminded me of how my dad would hold his pocket watch in his left palm and rock the stem back and forth between his thumb and the very tip of the index finger of his right hand ...
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