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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... talk , because it threw me off to talk to him when I was really happy and I'd rather save conversation for Molly . It was hurtful of me . I never meant to be hurtful but if I would recall something pleasant , some one good moment with ...
... talk , because it threw me off to talk to him when I was really happy and I'd rather save conversation for Molly . It was hurtful of me . I never meant to be hurtful but if I would recall something pleasant , some one good moment with ...
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... talk turns to birth control . And the question about what to expect men to be . " Toads , " I tell her . She says , " Daddy misses you , you know . He talks about miss- ing you . " I can't wipe all the sticky icing from my fingers ...
... talk turns to birth control . And the question about what to expect men to be . " Toads , " I tell her . She says , " Daddy misses you , you know . He talks about miss- ing you . " I can't wipe all the sticky icing from my fingers ...
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... talk very much . To be truthful , she almost never talks . Once we thought this betrayed other curtains behind the first curtain . The current thought among us is that not talking is probably how the normalest people stay normal . We ...
... talk very much . To be truthful , she almost never talks . Once we thought this betrayed other curtains behind the first curtain . The current thought among us is that not talking is probably how the normalest people stay normal . We ...
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