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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... already has caused her pain . Francis's eyes are always changing ; they make me think of those fossils in resin , the ones with insects ' bones arrested in flight . On her staff file report is a question about Francis's eyes . Retinitis ...
... already has caused her pain . Francis's eyes are always changing ; they make me think of those fossils in resin , the ones with insects ' bones arrested in flight . On her staff file report is a question about Francis's eyes . Retinitis ...
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... already . Chewed fast so to not talk with my mouth full if I thought what to say . She said , " We listen . My father has a favorite station that we listen to . " We ate quiet . The lasagna came which we ate quiet too . Peggy said she ...
... already . Chewed fast so to not talk with my mouth full if I thought what to say . She said , " We listen . My father has a favorite station that we listen to . " We ate quiet . The lasagna came which we ate quiet too . Peggy said she ...
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... already said I did , Anthony . " He stopped grinning . " That's something brand - new . " " So ? " I asked . " Where are we going ? " " Your neighborhood . Circle it . " I told him I had common sense enough to have already done that ...
... already said I did , Anthony . " He stopped grinning . " That's something brand - new . " " So ? " I asked . " Where are we going ? " " Your neighborhood . Circle it . " I told him I had common sense enough to have already done that ...
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