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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... close ! Never let me go ! Hold me close ! Melt my heart like April snow . " Very serious . Also , careful . Will you think about this , this Mexican boy trying if he can sound like Johnny Mathis who was trying not to sound black . My ...
... close ! Never let me go ! Hold me close ! Melt my heart like April snow . " Very serious . Also , careful . Will you think about this , this Mexican boy trying if he can sound like Johnny Mathis who was trying not to sound black . My ...
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... close . I guess I'd say that if you looked real close you saw a burly old owl . About then , Sergio asked if we ligked inzdrewmendtal . I said , " We ligke . " " Gooood , " said Sergio and Francis simultaneously . No one can imagine the ...
... close . I guess I'd say that if you looked real close you saw a burly old owl . About then , Sergio asked if we ligked inzdrewmendtal . I said , " We ligke . " " Gooood , " said Sergio and Francis simultaneously . No one can imagine the ...
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... close - trimmed mous- tache like Anthony's . His face , his pale , unwrinkled complexion had been much the same . " We've had a strange day , " she said . " A fight ? " She put the forks in the right places . " I think we're both ...
... close - trimmed mous- tache like Anthony's . His face , his pale , unwrinkled complexion had been much the same . " We've had a strange day , " she said . " A fight ? " She put the forks in the right places . " I think we're both ...
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