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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... neck, arms, and legs. We covered her tilt-open eyes, her pursed mouth, and perfect, open ears. We looked her over for a last leakage check. “Functional,” I said. “Functional,” he said. It was a word we had heard our father use. She had ...
... neck, arms, and legs. We covered her tilt-open eyes, her pursed mouth, and perfect, open ears. We looked her over for a last leakage check. “Functional,” I said. “Functional,” he said. It was a word we had heard our father use. She had ...
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... neck showed, and her hands around the thick, twisting stem. The Burpee photographer had called in June and told her mother about her winning the contest. “My name,” he said, “is Ed Fraley! And your little girl—is one lucky girl—because ...
... neck showed, and her hands around the thick, twisting stem. The Burpee photographer had called in June and told her mother about her winning the contest. “My name,” he said, “is Ed Fraley! And your little girl—is one lucky girl—because ...
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... neck was unwrinkled, smooth as his words; his face was friendly and human. Her mother had told her once that you could find some trace of animal in almost any man's face, that she should look around and see. Except for her father and ...
... neck was unwrinkled, smooth as his words; his face was friendly and human. Her mother had told her once that you could find some trace of animal in almost any man's face, that she should look around and see. Except for her father and ...
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... neck. “You do that.” She did it well. They climbed up into Mr. Fraley's truck cab, her in the middle. “You aren't sitting on your dress?” “No, ma'am.” “Mr. Fraley wants you to look nice, hon.” He was happy to be driving, she could see ...
... neck. “You do that.” She did it well. They climbed up into Mr. Fraley's truck cab, her in the middle. “You aren't sitting on your dress?” “No, ma'am.” “Mr. Fraley wants you to look nice, hon.” He was happy to be driving, she could see ...
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... neck as if he was gathering in a heavy rope. She didn't have to look to know her mother did not like him. “What's he do?” “He's a foreman,” she said. With his mouth full of pecans, Mr. Fraley asked her mother, “What's he do?” Mr. Fraley ...
... neck as if he was gathering in a heavy rope. She didn't have to look to know her mother did not like him. “What's he do?” “He's a foreman,” she said. With his mouth full of pecans, Mr. Fraley asked her mother, “What's he do?” Mr. Fraley ...
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