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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... work have appeared in different form in The Missouri Review (“Second Hands”), Crazyhorse (“August Twelve”), Turnstile (“In Your Hands”), and Witness (“Duty”). For Ann Rohovec: a promise kept. For the wives, daughters,
... work have appeared in different form in The Missouri Review (“Second Hands”), Crazyhorse (“August Twelve”), Turnstile (“In Your Hands”), and Witness (“Duty”). For Ann Rohovec: a promise kept. For the wives, daughters,
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Kevin McIlvoy. For Ann Rohovec: a promise kept. For the wives, daughters, sisters, mothers, and grandmothers of Vietnam veterans, who offered no less than their lives. There never was a war that was not inward: I.
Kevin McIlvoy. For Ann Rohovec: a promise kept. For the wives, daughters, sisters, mothers, and grandmothers of Vietnam veterans, who offered no less than their lives. There never was a war that was not inward: I.
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... 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 “The Brazilian Hour” on our local FM. Our moderator Sergio answers the listener ...
... 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 “The Brazilian Hour” on our local FM. Our moderator Sergio answers the listener ...
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... But many hours seem to have passed. “We hobe zhou hab enzhoy,” Sergio, at last, whispers. “Keeb enzhoying.” Hab a nize day, Sergio, my friend, my dear moderator. Self Report Writing a letter to my daughter Molly, Francis.
... But many hours seem to have passed. “We hobe zhou hab enzhoy,” Sergio, at last, whispers. “Keeb enzhoying.” Hab a nize day, Sergio, my friend, my dear moderator. Self Report Writing a letter to my daughter Molly, Francis.
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... daughter Molly was not something I asked her to do; Francis did it, she said, “just because.” At first, I would ask, “Shouldn't I write these letters, don't you think, Francis?” “Well, Peg,” Francis had said, “of course.” The ...
... daughter Molly was not something I asked her to do; Francis did it, she said, “just because.” At first, I would ask, “Shouldn't I write these letters, don't you think, Francis?” “Well, Peg,” Francis had said, “of course.” The ...
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