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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... window curtains were Lustre Glaze Chintz (we had picked it out together) which feels so good to gather in your hands or in a curtain sash. James and my arrangement has been unconventional. We might be “separated.” Who can tell? In '73 I ...
... window curtains were Lustre Glaze Chintz (we had picked it out together) which feels so good to gather in your hands or in a curtain sash. James and my arrangement has been unconventional. We might be “separated.” Who can tell? In '73 I ...
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... window. “If we get a letter,” he said, “call me at work, honey.” He always drove home for lunch if a letter came from her older brother Anthony, only seventeen but a freshman at UT-Austin. No sooner had Mr. O'Crerieh gone than the ...
... window. “If we get a letter,” he said, “call me at work, honey.” He always drove home for lunch if a letter came from her older brother Anthony, only seventeen but a freshman at UT-Austin. No sooner had Mr. O'Crerieh gone than the ...
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... window, but her mother probably did not notice. He said, “You got a little princess here—a big little princess. A good one, I mean it. Check and proofs'll come on the same day. I'll call from our office in Denver. That's July 26. Look ...
... window, but her mother probably did not notice. He said, “You got a little princess here—a big little princess. A good one, I mean it. Check and proofs'll come on the same day. I'll call from our office in Denver. That's July 26. Look ...
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... window that opened almost directly into the open car window. They could hear their parents making sounds people might make rowing a boat on a river, rowing and laughing and rowing faster. They heard her father say very quietly, “Thank ...
... window that opened almost directly into the open car window. They could hear their parents making sounds people might make rowing a boat on a river, rowing and laughing and rowing faster. They heard her father say very quietly, “Thank ...
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... window ask, “The kids?” “Probably nothing.” They stayed low. Her mother said, “Okay,” and her father chuckled oddly as though he was chuckling with his mouth closed. He asked, “Didn't John Glenn have a crew cut?” Ben touched Peg's left ...
... window ask, “The kids?” “Probably nothing.” They stayed low. Her mother said, “Okay,” and her father chuckled oddly as though he was chuckling with his mouth closed. He asked, “Didn't John Glenn have a crew cut?” Ben touched Peg's left ...
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