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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... took the bags around the house to the back door because Mom didn't like us tramping the living room carpet . On my second trip , the jar of Hot Pepper Rings bumped out of my bag and shattered everywhere on the ground . I started to ...
... took the bags around the house to the back door because Mom didn't like us tramping the living room carpet . On my second trip , the jar of Hot Pepper Rings bumped out of my bag and shattered everywhere on the ground . I started to ...
Page 206
... took the bottle . She touched the nipple to Molly's lips , then stroked her chin . When the kid locked onto the bottle , I took over the whole operation again . " Don't let her take so much . " I tilted the bottle at a different angle ...
... took the bottle . She touched the nipple to Molly's lips , then stroked her chin . When the kid locked onto the bottle , I took over the whole operation again . " Don't let her take so much . " I tilted the bottle at a different angle ...
Page 232
... took all my clothes off . I took the thing off my breasts . I wasn't finished . I thought of that word , " panties , " that one word defining children's and women's underwear , and that mattered to me . I took them off too . An AWOL ...
... took all my clothes off . I took the thing off my breasts . I wasn't finished . I thought of that word , " panties , " that one word defining children's and women's underwear , and that mattered to me . I took them off too . An AWOL ...
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