Little PegAtheneum, 1990 - 250 pages Peg O'Crerieh is a wife, mother, creative writing teacher, and sometime 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 inches slowly toward the truth until she is eventually able to confront the tragedy that sent her to Everview -- and which she may, at last, be able to leave behind. By turns brilliantly comic and painfully sad, Little Peg is a portrait of a singular woman, and of a life illuminated and transformed by the restorative powers a gifted writer. |
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Page 86
... Aigley , son of Mr. and Mrs. George Aigley of Las Almas , will complete two weeks of training under simulated combat conditions in the funda- mentals of day and night patrolling , employment of infantry weapons , survival methods , and ...
... Aigley , son of Mr. and Mrs. George Aigley of Las Almas , will complete two weeks of training under simulated combat conditions in the funda- mentals of day and night patrolling , employment of infantry weapons , survival methods , and ...
Page 135
... Aigley had planned to do all the remodeling themselves . They did succeed in assembling the bed , constructing the front- and back - door ramps , lowering certain counters and shelves and tables . Then they unwisely tried to remake ...
... Aigley had planned to do all the remodeling themselves . They did succeed in assembling the bed , constructing the front- and back - door ramps , lowering certain counters and shelves and tables . Then they unwisely tried to remake ...
Page 137
... Aigley had proposed and I had accepted , I imagined windows gliding open from one end of our neighborhood to another . On our honeymoon , James had told me , " See how things turn out ? After my dad lost his job , and we went through ...
... Aigley had proposed and I had accepted , I imagined windows gliding open from one end of our neighborhood to another . On our honeymoon , James had told me , " See how things turn out ? After my dad lost his job , and we went through ...
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