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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... Friend , " she said , " wants to know ' Do you have a million of nickels ? ' " " Girl's Friend ? " " You know . " Girl's Friend . I suppose I did know her . I already had the change out for another ride . I put it in the slots and got ...
... Friend , " she said , " wants to know ' Do you have a million of nickels ? ' " " Girl's Friend ? " " You know . " Girl's Friend . I suppose I did know her . I already had the change out for another ride . I put it in the slots and got ...
Page 224
... Friend talking with Pigbird . We must have all had the same thought at once , because together we grabbed for the control stick and rattled it . It had a red thumb button that we pressed . Pigbird and Girl's Friend shouted , " Stop ...
... Friend talking with Pigbird . We must have all had the same thought at once , because together we grabbed for the control stick and rattled it . It had a red thumb button that we pressed . Pigbird and Girl's Friend shouted , " Stop ...
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... Friend . It shocked me when Pigbird said , " I can spit farthest ! ” " I can spit more far than you , " said Girl's Friend . She had Molly's controlled grin and her same single - jingle nod . The bum- blebees held perfectly still on her ...
... Friend . It shocked me when Pigbird said , " I can spit farthest ! ” " I can spit more far than you , " said Girl's Friend . She had Molly's controlled grin and her same single - jingle nod . The bum- blebees held perfectly still on her ...
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