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 19
... probably eighteen or nineteen of them and they were probably running from the law . The best thing was that the people in peril were aliens . If you were floating things downriver to aliens anything you floated down would be wondrous ...
... probably eighteen or nineteen of them and they were probably running from the law . The best thing was that the people in peril were aliens . If you were floating things downriver to aliens anything you floated down would be wondrous ...
Page 59
... probably talking too loudly . I folded the poem back up and put it in one of my front overall pockets . We got on our knees near the buckets and brushes in order to spot - clean the Chemical Dependency hallway before shampooing it with ...
... probably talking too loudly . I folded the poem back up and put it in one of my front overall pockets . We got on our knees near the buckets and brushes in order to spot - clean the Chemical Dependency hallway before shampooing it with ...
Page 138
... probably impossible , said the other . " What ? " I said . " Yeah , " said one . " but they order a satellite out in space to shift a quarter of an inch or spin slower and change orbit if they want . " Ben has no hands , I wanted to say ...
... probably impossible , said the other . " What ? " I said . " Yeah , " said one . " but they order a satellite out in space to shift a quarter of an inch or spin slower and change orbit if they want . " Ben has no hands , I wanted to say ...
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