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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... laughed . We worked on one last stubborn stain , which she thought looked like an American bald eagle and I thought looked like a cashew . She said , " He's real physical . " " With you ? " " I think probably with everybody . He gets ...
... laughed . We worked on one last stubborn stain , which she thought looked like an American bald eagle and I thought looked like a cashew . She said , " He's real physical . " " With you ? " " I think probably with everybody . He gets ...
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... laughed . We made fun of her ; I wish that wasn't true , but we did — we poked fun at her . Then , after everything was rung up , Dad had the bag boy bring him the pie . It must have been hot on the bottom and hotter on the edges ...
... laughed . We made fun of her ; I wish that wasn't true , but we did — we poked fun at her . Then , after everything was rung up , Dad had the bag boy bring him the pie . It must have been hot on the bottom and hotter on the edges ...
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... laughed , and that did the trick . We let ourselves fall off the bench . All of us . At a booth in Jerry's 24 Hour Restaurant we looked out the window for the lights to change in sequence along El Paseo . I explained I would pick her up ...
... laughed , and that did the trick . We let ourselves fall off the bench . All of us . At a booth in Jerry's 24 Hour Restaurant we looked out the window for the lights to change in sequence along El Paseo . I explained I would pick her up ...
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