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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... of being. Denouement. It is sunrise. Or sunset. The clouds—three of them—cast one perfect cruciform shadow over the unopened curtains. Francis says, “Want some coffee?” She is menopausal. That really is how she has been.
... of being. Denouement. It is sunrise. Or sunset. The clouds—three of them—cast one perfect cruciform shadow over the unopened curtains. Francis says, “Want some coffee?” She is menopausal. That really is how she has been.
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... coffee. It makes me laugh when I think about the clouds, the curtains, the coffee, how neatly we descend the last steps of Freytag's Pyramid, which is the topic of my Friday lecture. We listen to the end of “The Brazilian Hour.” The ...
... coffee. It makes me laugh when I think about the clouds, the curtains, the coffee, how neatly we descend the last steps of Freytag's Pyramid, which is the topic of my Friday lecture. We listen to the end of “The Brazilian Hour.” The ...
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... his sideburns were short, narrow, neat, and the skin of his face a little agitated where he had circled his electric shaver too much around his mouth and over his chin. He had breakfast, coffee, orange juice, the morning paper, anything.
... his sideburns were short, narrow, neat, and the skin of his face a little agitated where he had circled his electric shaver too much around his mouth and over his chin. He had breakfast, coffee, orange juice, the morning paper, anything.
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... coffee, remembering just how I liked it, giving it to me whether I wanted it or not, like always. His hands were steady around the cup, and I touched his fingers with mine as I took it from him. Though I know what I need, I don't always ...
... coffee, remembering just how I liked it, giving it to me whether I wanted it or not, like always. His hands were steady around the cup, and I touched his fingers with mine as I took it from him. Though I know what I need, I don't always ...
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... coffees at the Wagon Wheel. We've been talking about boys. I've been trying to say wise things about how if a woman wants knights she better expect armor and if she wants priests she better expect commandments, and for both she better ...
... coffees at the Wagon Wheel. We've been talking about boys. I've been trying to say wise things about how if a woman wants knights she better expect armor and if she wants priests she better expect commandments, and for both she better ...
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