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 91
... knew . " " How did you know ? " " Honest , Peg , it's a side effect of the Elavil : you know the future . " Though Francis meant to be funny , I knew she was being truthful . I remembered how certain depressants had made me so placid ...
... knew . " " How did you know ? " " Honest , Peg , it's a side effect of the Elavil : you know the future . " Though Francis meant to be funny , I knew she was being truthful . I remembered how certain depressants had made me so placid ...
Page 113
... knew who would take it . In about the same way , I knew my sister Peg's fakes and feints and she knew mine too , the way good soldiers have to know these things . I always really did believe we could read each other's thoughts . This is ...
... knew who would take it . In about the same way , I knew my sister Peg's fakes and feints and she knew mine too , the way good soldiers have to know these things . I always really did believe we could read each other's thoughts . This is ...
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... knew we were there ? Who could catch us ? I looked at him , appreciating him . His boxers were twisted a small turn , so his left leg had less room to move than his right . His Cards cap was way down over his forehead , putting ...
... knew we were there ? Who could catch us ? I looked at him , appreciating him . His boxers were twisted a small turn , so his left leg had less room to move than his right . His Cards cap was way down over his forehead , putting ...
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