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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... head off . Ben showed me how it was her head that made the sound . He rocked Baby's head , making it sigh again , closing and open- ing its eyes . Ben had instinctively learned a gesture of my father's in which he would quietly , only ...
... head off . Ben showed me how it was her head that made the sound . He rocked Baby's head , making it sigh again , closing and open- ing its eyes . Ben had instinctively learned a gesture of my father's in which he would quietly , only ...
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... head moved that same way my father's head had , an- swering No in some deep cavern of him where I could not go . Everything went quiet between us . Inside my own silence , I made up what happened next . Ben asked , " He gave you his cap ...
... head moved that same way my father's head had , an- swering No in some deep cavern of him where I could not go . Everything went quiet between us . Inside my own silence , I made up what happened next . Ben asked , " He gave you his cap ...
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... head the same way . " Yipes ! " I said , leaning forward in the seat of the K Mart Freedomcopter where our ride was ... heads just a certain way , their wings raced , their bodies dipped into our eyes and drew nectar from them . Molly ...
... head the same way . " Yipes ! " I said , leaning forward in the seat of the K Mart Freedomcopter where our ride was ... heads just a certain way , their wings raced , their bodies dipped into our eyes and drew nectar from them . Molly ...
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