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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... told him I was happy and fairly okay mentally so it was safe to let me in. “Oh, hey, come on in,” he said. “Molly's at church but you sit down and let me take care of you.” His newly trimmed hair was parted high; his sideburns were ...
... told him I was happy and fairly okay mentally so it was safe to let me in. “Oh, hey, come on in,” he said. “Molly's at church but you sit down and let me take care of you.” His newly trimmed hair was parted high; his sideburns were ...
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... told him it was nice of him to ask but could I drink my coffee and us not talk, because it threw me off to talk to him when I was really happy and I'd rather save conversation for Molly. It was hurtful of me. I never meant to be hurtful ...
... told him it was nice of him to ask but could I drink my coffee and us not talk, because it threw me off to talk to him when I was really happy and I'd rather save conversation for Molly. It was hurtful of me. I never meant to be hurtful ...
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... told him to stop calling me Little Peg, call me Peg or shut up with your lots-of-anything-I-want because you're ruining my happy mood. He had left the living room to load the dishwasher when Molly came in. She was excited to see me, but ...
... told him to stop calling me Little Peg, call me Peg or shut up with your lots-of-anything-I-want because you're ruining my happy mood. He had left the living room to load the dishwasher when Molly came in. She was excited to see me, but ...
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... told my supervisor. I thought I should explain this. Still, I don't want it to be a worry. The students' work is fiction, right, since they don't really know me, the real whole me? And anyway, in every case—every single case—I have ...
... told my supervisor. I thought I should explain this. Still, I don't want it to be a worry. The students' work is fiction, right, since they don't really know me, the real whole me? And anyway, in every case—every single case—I have ...
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... told her mother about her winning the contest. “My name,” he said, “is Ed Fraley! And your little girl—is one lucky girl—because she has been chosen—from hundreds of contestants—to be next year's Burpee Big Max Pumpkin girl! What do you ...
... told her mother about her winning the contest. “My name,” he said, “is Ed Fraley! And your little girl—is one lucky girl—because she has been chosen—from hundreds of contestants—to be next year's Burpee Big Max Pumpkin girl! What do you ...
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