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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... explain but I say , " I'm going to lecture now about round , really round , and obscenely round characters and then I've got another assignment to throw out and I'm going to throw it way out there and we can all go fetch it and bring it ...
... explain but I say , " I'm going to lecture now about round , really round , and obscenely round characters and then I've got another assignment to throw out and I'm going to throw it way out there and we can all go fetch it and bring it ...
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... explain about war , how war worked . As if I could explain or knew how to say what our parents and the politicians and all the journalists and soldiers couldn't or wouldn't say . How could I look at Ben , his slender hands and wrists on ...
... explain about war , how war worked . As if I could explain or knew how to say what our parents and the politicians and all the journalists and soldiers couldn't or wouldn't say . How could I look at Ben , his slender hands and wrists on ...
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... explanation of that . But , look , I think if all the lovers , friends , and families of all the Vietnam dead ... explain , he said , and when I got angrier , he said he didn't owe me that . His platoon had a motto : " Freedom to ...
... explanation of that . But , look , I think if all the lovers , friends , and families of all the Vietnam dead ... explain , he said , and when I got angrier , he said he didn't owe me that . His platoon had a motto : " Freedom to ...
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