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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... t kept up as well as we thought and after the breakfast ended , the stack in front of us was chin - high . Alone in the church kitchen , we both did the job right . He didn't leave crud on a plate , front or back . I didn't dry those ...
... t kept up as well as we thought and after the breakfast ended , the stack in front of us was chin - high . Alone in the church kitchen , we both did the job right . He didn't leave crud on a plate , front or back . I didn't dry those ...
Page 208
... didn't have that physical alertness some boys have who play sports . Those bowed shoulders and that straight neck ... t wait long after I sat down to saw a leg off my chair . " Dad , maybe now might be the time- before I go away and all ...
... didn't have that physical alertness some boys have who play sports . Those bowed shoulders and that straight neck ... t wait long after I sat down to saw a leg off my chair . " Dad , maybe now might be the time- before I go away and all ...
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... t fly . We didn't hold each other or cry or reach some dramatic moment of rosy , patriotic rec- onciliation . That would make a better story , but we didn't do that . He said , " Makes the whole thing over . For today . " Now , I put ...
... t fly . We didn't hold each other or cry or reach some dramatic moment of rosy , patriotic rec- onciliation . That would make a better story , but we didn't do that . He said , " Makes the whole thing over . For today . " Now , I put ...
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