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 75
... body corrosively aware of its mortality . Are my students in the same perfect state for writing ? No. The necessary coordination between us is impossible . I try to allow only those changes in my life that will not flaw me as a writer ...
... body corrosively aware of its mortality . Are my students in the same perfect state for writing ? No. The necessary coordination between us is impossible . I try to allow only those changes in my life that will not flaw me as a writer ...
Page 86
... body . He had bruised my body . And it is still inexplicable to me how much more complex that made him when it might reason- ably have made him only a jerk . Driving home , he talked about when he thought he would have to leave for Camp ...
... body . He had bruised my body . And it is still inexplicable to me how much more complex that made him when it might reason- ably have made him only a jerk . Driving home , he talked about when he thought he would have to leave for Camp ...
Page 110
... body parts , separate them from rumps , flanks , shoulders . In the next three aisles we bought Cheez - Its , Cardinal Potato Chips , Oreos , and Windmills . Mom also bought coffee , grape- fruit juice , saltines . Candy & Nuts & Baby ...
... body parts , separate them from rumps , flanks , shoulders . In the next three aisles we bought Cheez - Its , Cardinal Potato Chips , Oreos , and Windmills . Mom also bought coffee , grape- fruit juice , saltines . Candy & Nuts & Baby ...
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