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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... living with a man . This is something I haven't been for a while , so I'm often awake , trying to assess my alien inalienable rights . I hear James putting on his Mr. Vendor clothes at the foot of our bed . He has a slowly inflating ...
... living with a man . This is something I haven't been for a while , so I'm often awake , trying to assess my alien inalienable rights . I hear James putting on his Mr. Vendor clothes at the foot of our bed . He has a slowly inflating ...
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... living dead . " Mr. Godfrey cares about people , " Mom said . " You can tell he does . " This all happened one afternoon a year ago on the last Friday in November , the culmination of Hawaiian Week Bargain Days at the Albertson's ...
... living dead . " Mr. Godfrey cares about people , " Mom said . " You can tell he does . " This all happened one afternoon a year ago on the last Friday in November , the culmination of Hawaiian Week Bargain Days at the Albertson's ...
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... living room . Before he went out in the backyard to work , I made him move the cot into the room that he said would be Ben's . Mom neatened my bedmaking . She had always folded bath- room towels and ironed pants and made a bed in the ...
... living room . Before he went out in the backyard to work , I made him move the cot into the room that he said would be Ben's . Mom neatened my bedmaking . She had always folded bath- room towels and ironed pants and made a bed in the ...
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