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 49
... things . And now . He only wanted to see . But her mother had told her the rule as if telling her about an eleventh command- ment . Ben shalt not see the thing nor Peg under the thing . “ No , Ben , " she said , lifting his hand away ...
... things . And now . He only wanted to see . But her mother had told her the rule as if telling her about an eleventh command- ment . Ben shalt not see the thing nor Peg under the thing . “ No , Ben , " she said , lifting his hand away ...
Page 137
... things turn out ? After my dad lost his job , and we went through that repo thing , we were white trash . That's how my parents thought of us after that . They fought a lot about my mom looking for work . We had fewer choices and we ...
... things turn out ? After my dad lost his job , and we went through that repo thing , we were white trash . That's how my parents thought of us after that . They fought a lot about my mom looking for work . We had fewer choices and we ...
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... thing was unfriendly . But it wanted to be friends . I fixed my eyes on it because I felt that was the only way to hold it from attacking me . Before we did anything else on the house , we hung three of the things triptych - style in ...
... thing was unfriendly . But it wanted to be friends . I fixed my eyes on it because I felt that was the only way to hold it from attacking me . Before we did anything else on the house , we hung three of the things triptych - style in ...
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