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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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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... mother and my younger brother Ben never called me Little. God made me from a large block of mottled white stone and he rushed the job, didn't chisel or chip much away. So, I have few well-defined features except for two almost ...
... mother and my younger brother Ben never called me Little. God made me from a large block of mottled white stone and he rushed the job, didn't chisel or chip much away. So, I have few well-defined features except for two almost ...
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... mother was fifty-five. My father was fifty-seven. He had fought in France. James and I had been married two months and—we both knew how many days, too—two months and twelve days—when he left for basic. Molly was conceived in Japan. A ...
... mother was fifty-five. My father was fifty-seven. He had fought in France. James and I had been married two months and—we both knew how many days, too—two months and twelve days—when he left for basic. Molly was conceived in Japan. A ...
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... 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. “Eight. Can you believe ...
... 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. “Eight. Can you believe ...
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... mother. “Jeez, Peg.” He wiped my spit from his forehead. His hair did not have as much black in it as mine, but it was the same auburn shade. All the features of his face were so much like mine that I might have been only his moult, a ...
... mother. “Jeez, Peg.” He wiped my spit from his forehead. His hair did not have as much black in it as mine, but it was the same auburn shade. All the features of his face were so much like mine that I might have been only his moult, a ...
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