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 19
... probably eighteen or nineteen of them and they were probably running from the law . The best thing was that the people in peril were aliens . If you were floating things downriver to aliens anything you floated down would be wondrous ...
... probably eighteen or nineteen of them and they were probably running from the law . The best thing was that the people in peril were aliens . If you were floating things downriver to aliens anything you floated down would be wondrous ...
Page 59
... probably talking too loudly . I folded the poem back up and put it in one of my front overall pockets . We got on our knees near the buckets and brushes in order to spot - clean the Chemical Dependency hallway before shampooing it with ...
... probably talking too loudly . I folded the poem back up and put it in one of my front overall pockets . We got on our knees near the buckets and brushes in order to spot - clean the Chemical Dependency hallway before shampooing it with ...
Page 138
... probably impossible , said the other . " What ? " I said . " Yeah , " said one . " but they order a satellite out in space to shift a quarter of an inch or spin slower and change orbit if they want . " Ben has no hands , I wanted to say ...
... probably impossible , said the other . " What ? " I said . " Yeah , " said one . " but they order a satellite out in space to shift a quarter of an inch or spin slower and change orbit if they want . " Ben has no hands , I wanted to say ...
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