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 118
... turned me to the mirror , I closed my eyes and said , " I trust you , " which I didn't . It was not a tight perm , so I felt comfortable with the dryer over me . Better Living Through Chemistry , I thought , thankful to have such a ...
... turned me to the mirror , I closed my eyes and said , " I trust you , " which I didn't . It was not a tight perm , so I felt comfortable with the dryer over me . Better Living Through Chemistry , I thought , thankful to have such a ...
Page 174
... turned the van off , and he stayed there . Fifteen min- utes later he slowly drove out of the alley and onto the street . I stayed for a long time where I was parked before driving by James's house to see about my hunch . His van was in ...
... turned the van off , and he stayed there . Fifteen min- utes later he slowly drove out of the alley and onto the street . I stayed for a long time where I was parked before driving by James's house to see about my hunch . His van was in ...
Page 244
... turned it so Molly and I could see . Probably Rickee's own work , it was a remarkable abstract of " The awfulness , " said Francis - of , well . I guess it was some kind of artistic activity . " Nasty , " said Molly . The way she ...
... turned it so Molly and I could see . Probably Rickee's own work , it was a remarkable abstract of " The awfulness , " said Francis - of , well . I guess it was some kind of artistic activity . " Nasty , " said Molly . The way she ...
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