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 47
... heard giggling through Peg's car window . " You better not , " Peg said , touching his hand on the wheel as he pretended to turn the car in that direction . Ben stopped , turned the engine off . " What is it ? " he asked . " It's them ...
... heard giggling through Peg's car window . " You better not , " Peg said , touching his hand on the wheel as he pretended to turn the car in that direction . Ben stopped , turned the engine off . " What is it ? " he asked . " It's them ...
Page 179
... heard him sit down at the table , and I believe I heard his chair give a little , and I imagine that his head was resting on his folded arms as he wept . Why didn't I go to him and hold him ? Because I know that he did not want that ...
... heard him sit down at the table , and I believe I heard his chair give a little , and I imagine that his head was resting on his folded arms as he wept . Why didn't I go to him and hold him ? Because I know that he did not want that ...
Page 228
... heard Girl's Friend say , say , " You're exploded ! " with the snide enthusiasm she always had when she said things that weren't nice to say . Pigbird said , " You're- " " You're exploded ! " said Girl's Friend . " And you're flushed ...
... heard Girl's Friend say , say , " You're exploded ! " with the snide enthusiasm she always had when she said things that weren't nice to say . Pigbird said , " You're- " " You're exploded ! " said Girl's Friend . " And you're flushed ...
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