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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... couldn't open it a chink because it was so strong and everything, was like a chunk of concrete, could break something if it wanted, smelled kind of like wet concrete, was cold with holes like the holes concrete's got, when it hit ...
... couldn't open it a chink because it was so strong and everything, was like a chunk of concrete, could break something if it wanted, smelled kind of like wet concrete, was cold with holes like the holes concrete's got, when it hit ...
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... couldn't keep up. Or to be sure he stopped when I stopped, I would sideswipe his bike with mine. I was only two years older than him, so by the time I was ten he had caught on to me. We had a particular place we bicycled to, where the ...
... couldn't keep up. Or to be sure he stopped when I stopped, I would sideswipe his bike with mine. I was only two years older than him, so by the time I was ten he had caught on to me. We had a particular place we bicycled to, where the ...
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... couldn't help ourselves: we played it out, we all three laughed. * Molly has bought us a dozen doughnuts and two extra-large coffees at the Wagon Wheel. We've been talking about boys. I've been trying to say wise things about how if a ...
... couldn't help ourselves: we played it out, we all three laughed. * Molly has bought us a dozen doughnuts and two extra-large coffees at the Wagon Wheel. We've been talking about boys. I've been trying to say wise things about how if a ...
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... couldn't sell seeds to people with plain silliness. They had not been getting along well. His face finally showed his anger. He said if she knew what he knew about what people want to see she'd be making a living taking photographs ...
... couldn't sell seeds to people with plain silliness. They had not been getting along well. His face finally showed his anger. He said if she knew what he knew about what people want to see she'd be making a living taking photographs ...
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... couldn't be explained and that must have been connected. Mr. and Mrs. Demas's house three houses over and across the street burned up. The Rios' three-trunk pecan tree next door died in one night. So did all the pecans in their shells ...
... couldn't be explained and that must have been connected. Mr. and Mrs. Demas's house three houses over and across the street burned up. The Rios' three-trunk pecan tree next door died in one night. So did all the pecans in their shells ...
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