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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... face was friendly and human . Her mother had told her once that you could find some trace of animal in almost any man's face , that she should look around and see . Except for her father and brothers , it was true : men looked like ...
... face was friendly and human . Her mother had told her once that you could find some trace of animal in almost any man's face , that she should look around and see . Except for her father and brothers , it was true : men looked like ...
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... face was kind of a scalded red . Marcella had told me the delivery didn't go right . I put my grocery bag next to the chair near her bed . I could reach her bed lamp , so I turned it on before I sat down . Molly , who was curled on her ...
... face was kind of a scalded red . Marcella had told me the delivery didn't go right . I put my grocery bag next to the chair near her bed . I could reach her bed lamp , so I turned it on before I sat down . Molly , who was curled on her ...
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... face in the picture . A nurse might have to hold his arm up or cradle his hips a certain way . She might be crying or cringing , or glaring at me . I made her part of the picture . The Joes , the nurses , they were like this giant woman ...
... face in the picture . A nurse might have to hold his arm up or cradle his hips a certain way . She might be crying or cringing , or glaring at me . I made her part of the picture . The Joes , the nurses , they were like this giant woman ...
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