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 63
... trying if he can sound like Johnny Mathis who was trying not to sound black . My old man says , " Inno- cence you lose like hair , some every day you look in the mirror . So don't look so much . " My old man , who didn't own a car , a ...
... trying if he can sound like Johnny Mathis who was trying not to sound black . My old man says , " Inno- cence you lose like hair , some every day you look in the mirror . So don't look so much . " My old man , who didn't own a car , a ...
Page 71
... trying me out with that . I hate cursing . She wore one earring , which was a camouflage - green plastic helicopter be- neath her jawline . Beautiful , perfectly shaped ear and smooth , small lobe . I looked at her ear that I love so ...
... trying me out with that . I hate cursing . She wore one earring , which was a camouflage - green plastic helicopter be- neath her jawline . Beautiful , perfectly shaped ear and smooth , small lobe . I looked at her ear that I love so ...
Page 79
... trying to get places , apologizing , trying again , driving me home , and asking , “ You're not mad ? " " No , " I lied . Someday I would write about him in my " In the Service " column , and I couldn't afford to be mad at him . For the ...
... trying to get places , apologizing , trying again , driving me home , and asking , “ You're not mad ? " " No , " I lied . Someday I would write about him in my " In the Service " column , and I couldn't afford to be mad at him . For the ...
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