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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... writing these letters ( which it didn't , since I saw Molly every week ) , then , of course , I should be writing them , but I never did ; and my own letters would probably not ever be half as fine as Francis's . Now , when the alarm ...
... writing these letters ( which it didn't , since I saw Molly every week ) , then , of course , I should be writing them , but I never did ; and my own letters would probably not ever be half as fine as Francis's . Now , when the alarm ...
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... writers ' lives and how they might affect my story . And they also concern how my own life might affect my story . When I think about the Peg variables I go crazy about my own susceptibility . Right in the middle of writing this I could ...
... writers ' lives and how they might affect my story . And they also concern how my own life might affect my story . When I think about the Peg variables I go crazy about my own susceptibility . Right in the middle of writing this I could ...
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... writing is consistently fresh , unpretentious , and funny . " -Washington Post " Kevin McIlvoy is a fine writer , who clearly delights in the act of making prose and attending to the mysteries of character . " -Los Angeles Times Book ...
... writing is consistently fresh , unpretentious , and funny . " -Washington Post " Kevin McIlvoy is a fine writer , who clearly delights in the act of making prose and attending to the mysteries of character . " -Los Angeles Times Book ...
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