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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... baby.” Norm sits next to Mitchey because he has believed all along she had this in her. “Key-rist!” says Burns, whose moustache is still only faint braille. I imagine reading his moustache. It says, “Are you kidding me?” Burns, a ...
... baby.” Norm sits next to Mitchey because he has believed all along she had this in her. “Key-rist!” says Burns, whose moustache is still only faint braille. I imagine reading his moustache. It says, “Are you kidding me?” Burns, a ...
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... baby, honey. Careful.” Then he fit into a good job as a snack machine vendor for White's Snack Foods here in Las Almas. He might have put too much energy and time in his work, but he'd say, “I'm still adjusting some, Little Peg,” and ...
... baby, honey. Careful.” Then he fit into a good job as a snack machine vendor for White's Snack Foods here in Las Almas. He might have put too much energy and time in his work, but he'd say, “I'm still adjusting some, Little Peg,” and ...
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... babies in His... He's got my mother and my father... He's got my sister and my brother...' We made up verses. 'He's got the liver and the tuna in His hands.' ” How old were you on the swings? “Nine or ten. Eight or nine.” Carefully, Peg ...
... babies in His... He's got my mother and my father... He's got my sister and my brother...' We made up verses. 'He's got the liver and the tuna in His hands.' ” How old were you on the swings? “Nine or ten. Eight or nine.” Carefully, Peg ...
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... Baby from the grocery bag. A twenty-inch life-size rubber newborn, Baby came with her own snap-on plastic diaper and pink cotton jumper. I don't know what Baby Lifesize cost in 1960, but you can buy her today for $19.99. I have seen ...
... Baby from the grocery bag. A twenty-inch life-size rubber newborn, Baby came with her own snap-on plastic diaper and pink cotton jumper. I don't know what Baby Lifesize cost in 1960, but you can buy her today for $19.99. I have seen ...
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... Baby's head as we screwed it back oh and punched her limbs in place. We took off her jumper to tape up the seams of her neck, arms, and legs. We covered her tilt-open eyes, her pursed mouth, and perfect, open ears. We looked her over ...
... Baby's head as we screwed it back oh and punched her limbs in place. We took off her jumper to tape up the seams of her neck, arms, and legs. We covered her tilt-open eyes, her pursed mouth, and perfect, open ears. We looked her over ...
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