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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... pulled into their driveway . The man who came out did not look anything like the way Mr. Ed Fraley sounded . But at the door he introduced himself as Ed and , because of something about how his upper and lower teeth were an unmatched ...
... pulled into their driveway . The man who came out did not look anything like the way Mr. Ed Fraley sounded . But at the door he introduced himself as Ed and , because of something about how his upper and lower teeth were an unmatched ...
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... pulled the dress over her hair . She rolled her new white socks down a little bit more until her ankles matched to ... pulled over and pointed . " See , you got a good big circle of light there all shut in by the shade . Nothing like it ...
... pulled the dress over her hair . She rolled her new white socks down a little bit more until her ankles matched to ... pulled over and pointed . " See , you got a good big circle of light there all shut in by the shade . Nothing like it ...
Page 189
... it . ” " Got it . " He was out the front door , and gone . " Is he all right ? " Anthony asked . He sat at the kitchen table and pulled himself up to it as if ready to eat . " Would you fix those forks ? " " He's Little Peg 189.
... it . ” " Got it . " He was out the front door , and gone . " Is he all right ? " Anthony asked . He sat at the kitchen table and pulled himself up to it as if ready to eat . " Would you fix those forks ? " " He's Little Peg 189.
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