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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Page 17
... morning in September . The Everview bus lady has given several of us a morning ride on a small bluff road just beyond the northern edge of Las Almas . On this high edge , I can see most of the Mesilla Valley . It is softened by the dew ...
... morning in September . The Everview bus lady has given several of us a morning ride on a small bluff road just beyond the northern edge of Las Almas . On this high edge , I can see most of the Mesilla Valley . It is softened by the dew ...
Page 139
... morning to remote some of the windows , start building a deck . ” " I'd like to , you know , be better to Dad . " Anthony's voice was deep , fake . I tucked my sweatshirt into my pants . That looked bad so I untucked it , held the waist ...
... morning to remote some of the windows , start building a deck . ” " I'd like to , you know , be better to Dad . " Anthony's voice was deep , fake . I tucked my sweatshirt into my pants . That looked bad so I untucked it , held the waist ...
Page 151
... morning after which she couldn't think again . - The time of day she thought was morning after which she couldn't think again . 4 ) " Men create war in order to compete with women life . " who create " Men create war in order to compete ...
... morning after which she couldn't think again . - The time of day she thought was morning after which she couldn't think again . 4 ) " Men create war in order to compete with women life . " who create " Men create war in order to compete ...
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