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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... said , " He's real physical . " " With you ? " " I think probably with everybody . He gets real , real close . He doesn't stand still when you're talking to him , he's always mov- ing . " She moved the way he moved , 60 KEVIN MCILVOY.
... said , " He's real physical . " " With you ? " " I think probably with everybody . He gets real , real close . He doesn't stand still when you're talking to him , he's always mov- ing . " She moved the way he moved , 60 KEVIN MCILVOY.
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Kevin McIlvoy. ing . " She moved the way he moved , her hands brushing over herself , her head bowed and lifted and the corners of her mouth shifting . " Then it's not love ? " I asked . " It's physical , " she said , grinning . We set ...
Kevin McIlvoy. ing . " She moved the way he moved , her hands brushing over herself , her head bowed and lifted and the corners of her mouth shifting . " Then it's not love ? " I asked . " It's physical , " she said , grinning . We set ...
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... off our stocking caps or sunglasses . When we blew on the steaming food , our heads jingled , and we had to look at each other through wavering ghosts . The End 2.Freedom TO THOSE WHO FOUGHT FOR IT I had moved Little Peg 229.
... off our stocking caps or sunglasses . When we blew on the steaming food , our heads jingled , and we had to look at each other through wavering ghosts . The End 2.Freedom TO THOSE WHO FOUGHT FOR IT I had moved Little Peg 229.
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