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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... front of Him and each other. Symbolism or no symbolism, even if you discounted both heaven and hell, sins and states of grace, immaculate and maculate conception, Mass was still a powerful jolt. When Molly came back out she asked James ...
... front of Him and each other. Symbolism or no symbolism, even if you discounted both heaven and hell, sins and states of grace, immaculate and maculate conception, Mass was still a powerful jolt. When Molly came back out she asked James ...
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... front of our daughter. An okay guy, but a jerk. I hug her, and I feel in her unbreaking embrace that she would hold me forever if that could protect me. “Here,” I say, “I wrote you this,” and hand her the letter I didn't write. * In ...
... front of our daughter. An okay guy, but a jerk. I hug her, and I feel in her unbreaking embrace that she would hold me forever if that could protect me. “Here,” I say, “I wrote you this,” and hand her the letter I didn't write. * In ...
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... front and gave me permission to use her Kaypro, which was already in my room. We thanked her. Paula was upset with us. She pushed her sharp lower teeth out a little, which is okay for a northern pike or muskellunge but makes a human ...
... front and gave me permission to use her Kaypro, which was already in my room. We thanked her. Paula was upset with us. She pushed her sharp lower teeth out a little, which is okay for a northern pike or muskellunge but makes a human ...
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... front. She didn't grow them all at once. But one day in the middle of the summer her mother said that she was still a little girl, when did those come? And drove with her to the Woolworth's department store where they bought the thing ...
... front. She didn't grow them all at once. But one day in the middle of the summer her mother said that she was still a little girl, when did those come? And drove with her to the Woolworth's department store where they bought the thing ...
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