Little PegUntreed Reads, 2012 M09 10 - 155 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 students' stories. Usurping their material, revising their facts, Peg slowly inches toward the truth until she is finally able to leave the worst 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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... Paula Moore, Maja-Lisa Moran, Darlin Neal, Eileen Patterson, Rita Popp, Cynthia Rose, Libby Scheidegger, and Barbara Waters. Sections of this work have appeared in different form in The Missouri Review (“Second Hands”), Crazyhorse ...
... Paula Moore, Maja-Lisa Moran, Darlin Neal, Eileen Patterson, Rita Popp, Cynthia Rose, Libby Scheidegger, and Barbara Waters. Sections of this work have appeared in different form in The Missouri Review (“Second Hands”), Crazyhorse ...
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... Paula Analyst's Kaypro word processor and Francis can finish a letter to my daughter Molly. It will be written as if by me and will be signed by me. After a snack in the dining room, we follow our once-a-week routine of tuning in to ...
... Paula Analyst's Kaypro word processor and Francis can finish a letter to my daughter Molly. It will be written as if by me and will be signed by me. After a snack in the dining room, we follow our once-a-week routine of tuning in to ...
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... Paula Analyst would say. She says the world is too exact for us to bear. Paula Analyst is an analyst in need of help. But she is my analyst, and so I listen to what she offers. Your chair, she says, is the locus of certain coordinates.
... Paula Analyst would say. She says the world is too exact for us to bear. Paula Analyst is an analyst in need of help. But she is my analyst, and so I listen to what she offers. Your chair, she says, is the locus of certain coordinates.
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... Paula Analyst. On the other side of the cards are detailed instructions about my various medications. “One. The Character, or in some cases, the Unreal Character, slowly becomes Real a) to herself or himself or to itself, b) to other ...
... Paula Analyst. On the other side of the cards are detailed instructions about my various medications. “One. The Character, or in some cases, the Unreal Character, slowly becomes Real a) to herself or himself or to itself, b) to other ...
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... Paula that Francis and I had our own “python” jokes about those boys' ever-alert penises. When Paula laughed at all that I assumed she believed me, so I believed me too. Completely. It could be the psychotropics I have taken. I have had ...
... Paula that Francis and I had our own “python” jokes about those boys' ever-alert penises. When Paula laughed at all that I assumed she believed me, so I believed me too. Completely. It could be the psychotropics I have taken. I have had ...
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