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 139
... Anthony's voice was deep , fake . I tucked my sweatshirt into my pants . That looked bad so I untucked it , held the waist of the pants out , and asked my bump , " Well , Baby , is it a good morning ? " No answer yet . Anthony said ...
... Anthony's voice was deep , fake . I tucked my sweatshirt into my pants . That looked bad so I untucked it , held the waist of the pants out , and asked my bump , " Well , Baby , is it a good morning ? " No answer yet . Anthony said ...
Page 189
... Anthony arrived with the barbecue and the champagne , he was in a hurry to hear about Peggy and Molly Ann . She put paper plates and napkins in his hands and silverware in John's so they could set the table as they talked . John was ...
... Anthony arrived with the barbecue and the champagne , he was in a hurry to hear about Peggy and Molly Ann . She put paper plates and napkins in his hands and silverware in John's so they could set the table as they talked . John was ...
Page 246
... Anthony said . Francis stood between him and me , so he had to say it through her . Anthony didn't ask if I wanted the something he brought . He turned around with James in tow , James saying , " Wait'll you see , " and they went to ...
... Anthony said . Francis stood between him and me , so he had to say it through her . Anthony didn't ask if I wanted the something he brought . He turned around with James in tow , James saying , " Wait'll you see , " and they went to ...
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