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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... Rickee Wells's office to say hello, but she is hiding out, probably working on a new poem. (She says “poom.”) Rickee is a Real English Professor Poet in The Department of English on the main campus. She is also a fledgling real estate ...
... Rickee Wells's office to say hello, but she is hiding out, probably working on a new poem. (She says “poom.”) Rickee is a Real English Professor Poet in The Department of English on the main campus. She is also a fledgling real estate ...
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... Rickee and I would be best friends. In another time, we might yet be. “See you, Rickee. Good luck on the poem.” “Sorry. Hey, wait.” Through the hollow wooden door, Rickee's words sound like stones spilled out of pottery. “Want to hear ...
... Rickee and I would be best friends. In another time, we might yet be. “See you, Rickee. Good luck on the poem.” “Sorry. Hey, wait.” Through the hollow wooden door, Rickee's words sound like stones spilled out of pottery. “Want to hear ...
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... Rickee, and my truant student Lewis Blake maybe, and Sergio. Barely a handful. My ex-husband and I are estranged. In 1971, when we had been married barely eighteen months, James came back from Vietnam okay. He deplaned uninjured ...
... Rickee, and my truant student Lewis Blake maybe, and Sergio. Barely a handful. My ex-husband and I are estranged. In 1971, when we had been married barely eighteen months, James came back from Vietnam okay. He deplaned uninjured ...
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