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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... called Everview Halfway House , and it had no wrought- iron gates and archways , and the large adobe building was not divided into two " wings . " It had no concrete identifying sign with sun / mountain / stream logo . It had no ...
... called Everview Halfway House , and it had no wrought- iron gates and archways , and the large adobe building was not divided into two " wings . " It had no concrete identifying sign with sun / mountain / stream logo . It had no ...
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... called " Little Peg " by my oldest brother Anthony and my father ; once , that was an affectionate irony , now it is an ironic affectation . My mother and my younger brother Ben never called me Little . God made me from a large block of ...
... called " Little Peg " by my oldest brother Anthony and my father ; once , that was an affectionate irony , now it is an ironic affectation . My mother and my younger brother Ben never called me Little . God made me from a large block of ...
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... called me , what I always hated : " Little Peg . Little Peg . Little Peg . " Your fists tightened like in your sleep , until your father came home and your mother was gone there and had not come had never come back . It is called ...
... called me , what I always hated : " Little Peg . Little Peg . Little Peg . " Your fists tightened like in your sleep , until your father came home and your mother was gone there and had not come had never come back . It is called ...
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