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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... door . " Can't talk . Sorry , Peg . " " Hi there , " says Francis . " Hi , Francis . " I understand that for Rickee ... door , Rick- ee's words sound like stones spilled out of pottery . " Want to hear it ? " " The poem ? " asks Francis ...
... door . " Can't talk . Sorry , Peg . " " Hi there , " says Francis . " Hi , Francis . " I understand that for Rickee ... door , Rick- ee's words sound like stones spilled out of pottery . " Want to hear it ? " " The poem ? " asks Francis ...
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... door wanting to swing out and in . Here is the handle made to fit the swinging door risking its weight on the eyes of a hinge depending upon a rocking pin . Here is the doorframe shrinking from and swelling around the heavy door ...
... door wanting to swing out and in . Here is the handle made to fit the swinging door risking its weight on the eyes of a hinge depending upon a rocking pin . Here is the doorframe shrinking from and swelling around the heavy door ...
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... door at all . Rickee I liked it . I started to fold it up , but had to read it again to know whether it was a warming or a warning . Behind me , the loud , long honk from the bus and the shushing sound of its doors and the bus lady's ...
... door at all . Rickee I liked it . I started to fold it up , but had to read it again to know whether it was a warming or a warning . Behind me , the loud , long honk from the bus and the shushing sound of its doors and the bus lady's ...
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