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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... coffee . It makes me laugh when I think about the clouds , the curtains , the coffee , how neatly we descend the last steps of Freytag's Pyramid , which is the topic of my Friday lecture . We listen to the end of " The Brazilian Hour ...
... coffee . It makes me laugh when I think about the clouds , the curtains , the coffee , how neatly we descend the last steps of Freytag's Pyramid , which is the topic of my Friday lecture . We listen to the end of " The Brazilian Hour ...
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... coffee , that might be okay . The waitress took the plates off . Very polite , puts cream in the coffee for Peggy . A watch on her wrist , little bitty watch , Peggy looks at it when she drinks . " What time ? " I ask . " Early , " she ...
... coffee , that might be okay . The waitress took the plates off . Very polite , puts cream in the coffee for Peggy . A watch on her wrist , little bitty watch , Peggy looks at it when she drinks . " What time ? " I ask . " Early , " she ...
Page 131
... coffee ? " I said sure , that it would be good to see him . A half truth . Andrew Aigley was my father - in - law and , while I didn't know him too well , I could have figured that if he were asked , he'd help out . My father had also ...
... coffee ? " I said sure , that it would be good to see him . A half truth . Andrew Aigley was my father - in - law and , while I didn't know him too well , I could have figured that if he were asked , he'd help out . My father had also ...
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