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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... Vietnam are old , old white stone grave markers that say , ' Liet Si ' ? Ben wrote me . Said it made Arlington Cemetery look like a tiny family plot . " Where were we ? " It means ' Hero . ' ' Where were we ? " I was twenty - one years ...
... Vietnam are old , old white stone grave markers that say , ' Liet Si ' ? Ben wrote me . Said it made Arlington Cemetery look like a tiny family plot . " Where were we ? " It means ' Hero . ' ' Where were we ? " I was twenty - one years ...
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... Vietnam , and about his older brother Roy , who was there already . Jim was waiting around the Sun - Bulletin for me so he could buy me a hot chocolate and try ( again ) to get places with me . He said , " Say ' stirring ' and ...
... Vietnam , and about his older brother Roy , who was there already . Jim was waiting around the Sun - Bulletin for me so he could buy me a hot chocolate and try ( again ) to get places with me . He said , " Say ' stirring ' and ...
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... Vietnam . Once , Paula Analyst asked me to reread the letters and , if I wanted , to bring certain ones to a session to read to her . I have never read any of them since the very first time I received them . I don't owe anyone an ...
... Vietnam . Once , Paula Analyst asked me to reread the letters and , if I wanted , to bring certain ones to a session to read to her . I have never read any of them since the very first time I received them . I don't owe anyone an ...
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