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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... hold it - don't move - yeah , yeah . That could be the one . " Her mother asked , " Is something wrong with you ? " - " What ? " He was changing the lens of his camera , one fist around the camera body , one fist locking the new lens in ...
... hold it - don't move - yeah , yeah . That could be the one . " Her mother asked , " Is something wrong with you ? " - " What ? " He was changing the lens of his camera , one fist around the camera body , one fist locking the new lens in ...
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... Hold me close ! Never let me go ! Hold me close ! Melt my heart like April snow . " Very serious . Also , careful . Will you think about this , this Mexican boy trying if he can sound like Johnny Mathis who was trying not to sound black ...
... Hold me close ! Never let me go ! Hold me close ! Melt my heart like April snow . " Very serious . Also , careful . Will you think about this , this Mexican boy trying if he can sound like Johnny Mathis who was trying not to sound black ...
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... hold it to his ear , then hold it to your ear . " Hear ? " You had to pay attention to him . If you were rotten , his belt struck you like a snake . We're strong people , my wife's people and mine . I couldn't remember any of our ...
... hold it to his ear , then hold it to your ear . " Hear ? " You had to pay attention to him . If you were rotten , his belt struck you like a snake . We're strong people , my wife's people and mine . I couldn't remember any of our ...
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