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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... kind of people gave off the most light ? Which ones didn't give off any ? " I wish , " he said , " your mom and me could've got on better . You're a kind of people I know how to work with . You're perfect to shoot - I mean , I could ...
... kind of people gave off the most light ? Which ones didn't give off any ? " I wish , " he said , " your mom and me could've got on better . You're a kind of people I know how to work with . You're perfect to shoot - I mean , I could ...
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... kind of . " " Yes , " Peggy said . She was wearing one of those creased dresses like a big cooking apron you pull up to your shoulders . It showed her shoulders and arms . Clean . Elbows soft - looking . She was pudgy so she had some ...
... kind of . " " Yes , " Peggy said . She was wearing one of those creased dresses like a big cooking apron you pull up to your shoulders . It showed her shoulders and arms . Clean . Elbows soft - looking . She was pudgy so she had some ...
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... kind of artistic activity . " Nasty , " said Molly . The way she pronounced the NI thought she might be echoing some rock and roll code . But I tried it out as a name : Peg Nasty . Nah . Peg Nah . No. " Nasty " did nicely describe the ...
... kind of artistic activity . " Nasty , " said Molly . The way she pronounced the NI thought she might be echoing some rock and roll code . But I tried it out as a name : Peg Nasty . Nah . Peg Nah . No. " Nasty " did nicely describe the ...
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