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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... daughter Molly . It will be written as if by me and will be signed by me . After a snack in the dining room , we follow our once - a - week routine of tuning in to " The Brazilian Hour " on our local FM . Our moderator Sergio answers ...
... daughter Molly . It will be written as if by me and will be signed by me . After a snack in the dining room , we follow our once - a - week routine of tuning in to " The Brazilian Hour " on our local FM . Our moderator Sergio answers ...
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... daughter Molly was not some- thing I asked her to do ; Francis did it , she said , " just because . " At first , I would ask , " Shouldn't I write these letters , don't you think , Francis ? " " Well , Peg , " Francis had said , " of ...
... daughter Molly was not some- thing I asked her to do ; Francis did it , she said , " just because . " At first , I would ask , " Shouldn't I write these letters , don't you think , Francis ? " " Well , Peg , " Francis had said , " of ...
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... daughter . To make a promise with myself , a threat against God , I gave the other two names . They were lost in me , so far away that they might have been lost in a foreign land . You see , I want you to see how dear their lives were ...
... daughter . To make a promise with myself , a threat against God , I gave the other two names . They were lost in me , so far away that they might have been lost in a foreign land . You see , I want you to see how dear their lives were ...
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