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
... Hold me close ! Never let me go ! Hold me close ! Melt my heart like April snow . " Very serious . Also , careful . Will you think about this , this Mexican boy trying if he can sound like Johnny Mathis who was trying not to sound black ...
... Hold me close ! Never let me go ! Hold me close ! Melt my heart like April snow . " Very serious . Also , careful . Will you think about this , this Mexican boy trying if he can sound like Johnny Mathis who was trying not to sound black ...
Page 132
... hold up the world or hold it down while men ham- mered it in place . He pretended to knock my forehead with the hammer . " You're overeducated , you know that ? " When Mr. Aigley came , we traded news about James . Whenever the Aigleys ...
... hold up the world or hold it down while men ham- mered it in place . He pretended to knock my forehead with the hammer . " You're overeducated , you know that ? " When Mr. Aigley came , we traded news about James . Whenever the Aigleys ...
Page 203
... hold it to his ear , then hold it to your ear . " Hear ? " You had to pay attention to him . If you were rotten , his belt struck you like a snake . We're strong people , my wife's people and mine . I couldn't remember any of our ...
... hold it to his ear , then hold it to your ear . " Hear ? " You had to pay attention to him . If you were rotten , his belt struck you like a snake . We're strong people , my wife's people and mine . I couldn't remember any of our ...
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