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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... Norm , " how come Francis didn't come with you ? " Did they care about the story ? Any of them ? " Peter , ” I said ... Norm . “ That's a climax . " " What pie ? " Burns never liked seeing Mitchey's arms and hands so close to Norm's on ...
... Norm , " how come Francis didn't come with you ? " Did they care about the story ? Any of them ? " Peter , ” I said ... Norm . “ That's a climax . " " What pie ? " Burns never liked seeing Mitchey's arms and hands so close to Norm's on ...
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... Norm ? Put your hand down - Mitchey . Norm ? Put your hand down Mitchey . 6 ) Please - Norm more . - Please Norm more . - - 7 ) How _ she wondered – when she put the commas in – where unrestricted meaning ended ! - How she wondered when ...
... Norm ? Put your hand down - Mitchey . Norm ? Put your hand down Mitchey . 6 ) Please - Norm more . - Please Norm more . - - 7 ) How _ she wondered – when she put the commas in – where unrestricted meaning ended ! - How she wondered when ...
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... Norm , who has repeated my writing class three times . When he sees me he'll even help me recall his name , he'll say , " Mrs. O ! It's me , Norm . " Although he will have been one of thousands of my students and I will have been one of ...
... Norm , who has repeated my writing class three times . When he sees me he'll even help me recall his name , he'll say , " Mrs. O ! It's me , Norm . " Although he will have been one of thousands of my students and I will have been one of ...
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