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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... inside the matchbox and handed it to him . He dropped it into her and looked inside . " Okay , " he said . I put the flashlight and pencils together , rolling the blank paper around them . I rolled the map around that , but then decided ...
... inside the matchbox and handed it to him . He dropped it into her and looked inside . " Okay , " he said . I put the flashlight and pencils together , rolling the blank paper around them . I rolled the map around that , but then decided ...
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... inside . I ordered this through the mail . I tell you , you can't believe it . ” He carried the map inside to Ben's room . " You know how these places take forever . I ordered this thing for Ben in De- cember . " " Okay , " I said ...
... inside . I ordered this through the mail . I tell you , you can't believe it . ” He carried the map inside to Ben's room . " You know how these places take forever . I ordered this thing for Ben in De- cember . " " Okay , " I said ...
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... inside and the enemy as he encountered him . Or her . He went only a few yards inside sometimes , but other times he crawled very deep to set explosives in place , then retreat from the mazes . I know what he did because he wrote my ...
... inside and the enemy as he encountered him . Or her . He went only a few yards inside sometimes , but other times he crawled very deep to set explosives in place , then retreat from the mazes . I know what he did because he wrote my ...
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