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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... Wait . " Francis puts her weight on both legs . " Francis , " I whisper , " you are so fine . " " Ready ? " " Yep , " says Francis . " We have / more words for Ice / than Love . / Crumbling ice like / unsteady , wrinkled palms / ice ...
... Wait . " Francis puts her weight on both legs . " Francis , " I whisper , " you are so fine . " " Ready ? " " Yep , " says Francis . " We have / more words for Ice / than Love . / Crumbling ice like / unsteady , wrinkled palms / ice ...
Page 12
... Wait . Wait . " We can stop . " I drove my brother Ben to the airport when he left too . We sang , ' He's Got the Whole Wide World ' the whole way to El Paso . " Are you exaggerating ? " Yes . " Don't . " Some of the way to El Paso ...
... Wait . Wait . " We can stop . " I drove my brother Ben to the airport when he left too . We sang , ' He's Got the Whole Wide World ' the whole way to El Paso . " Are you exaggerating ? " Yes . " Don't . " Some of the way to El Paso ...
Page 102
... wait , self - multiplying their joy to the highest power . But her toes are cold , and that ruins that . Walking the alleyway , she notices even the alley litter has changed color with the season . It worries her that Mrs. Hahn's lawn ...
... wait , self - multiplying their joy to the highest power . But her toes are cold , and that ruins that . Walking the alleyway , she notices even the alley litter has changed color with the season . It worries her that Mrs. Hahn's lawn ...
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