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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... remember.” How many days, Peg? “My 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 ...
... remember.” How many days, Peg? “My 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 ...
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... do you think? I was wondering if they'll put a picture of Imelda's closetful of shoes in the history bks. In my history bks I can remember seeing a photo of Churchill's 6 pair of spectacles and the 6 cases they came in. It made. 2.
... do you think? I was wondering if they'll put a picture of Imelda's closetful of shoes in the history bks. In my history bks I can remember seeing a photo of Churchill's 6 pair of spectacles and the 6 cases they came in. It made. 2.
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... remembering just how I liked it, giving it to me whether I wanted it or not, like always. His hands were steady ... remember I would touch his hands with my nose and lips; smell and even almost taste the weedy mustiness of me on his ...
... remembering just how I liked it, giving it to me whether I wanted it or not, like always. His hands were steady ... remember I would touch his hands with my nose and lips; smell and even almost taste the weedy mustiness of me on his ...
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... remember, you name.” Her palms raised from the table, and pressed down on it again. I remembered what she had told me about her miscarriages. She had lost three children in nine years. Daughters. And she had named the last two. At the ...
... remember, you name.” Her palms raised from the table, and pressed down on it again. I remembered what she had told me about her miscarriages. She had lost three children in nine years. Daughters. And she had named the last two. At the ...
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