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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... hair go free . He needed the freedom , he said , the Friend- ship Seven was tight , and his hair felt good lifting up off his head . That's what she said he said . " " That's the craziest- " " She said his eye roamed over the whole ...
... hair go free . He needed the freedom , he said , the Friend- ship Seven was tight , and his hair felt good lifting up off his head . That's what she said he said . " " That's the craziest- " " She said his eye roamed over the whole ...
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... hair on her arms smelled like perm , and her own head was in transition of some kind . I handed her tissues for the curlers . " Heavy people have to watch out , " she said . " Hair means lots . " " Yes , " I said . " Not everybody's got ...
... hair on her arms smelled like perm , and her own head was in transition of some kind . I handed her tissues for the curlers . " Heavy people have to watch out , " she said . " Hair means lots . " " Yes , " I said . " Not everybody's got ...
Page 118
... hair pick would give me Windblown any- way , as long as I stayed out of the wind . I looked in the mirror . On the top of my head I had lighter hair and less of it ; the bands of hair around this were frothy in some places , plaited in ...
... hair pick would give me Windblown any- way , as long as I stayed out of the wind . I looked in the mirror . On the top of my head I had lighter hair and less of it ; the bands of hair around this were frothy in some places , plaited in ...
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