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 42
... pushed her sharp lower teeth out a little , which is okay for a northern pike or muskellunge but makes a human look dangerous . Unreal . She said , You're acting crazy , you two . I squinted to fix her in a narrow space where I could be ...
... pushed her sharp lower teeth out a little , which is okay for a northern pike or muskellunge but makes a human look dangerous . Unreal . She said , You're acting crazy , you two . I squinted to fix her in a narrow space where I could be ...
Page 106
... pushing , and Peg riding the sidebar . Peg had talked me into going with her and Mom . Then the three of us had ... pushed her wobbling cart forward . My mother is beautiful . But over here in Nam I have some problems picturing her ...
... pushing , and Peg riding the sidebar . Peg had talked me into going with her and Mom . Then the three of us had ... pushed her wobbling cart forward . My mother is beautiful . But over here in Nam I have some problems picturing her ...
Page 115
... pushed it back toward him . " Anything new ? " I asked . Anthony said , " Yeah . She's got him talked into both of them seeing some psychoanalyst . " When the waitress served , us , I noticed his piece of pie was bigger than mine , and ...
... pushed it back toward him . " Anything new ? " I asked . Anthony said , " Yeah . She's got him talked into both of them seeing some psychoanalyst . " When the waitress served , us , I noticed his piece of pie was bigger than mine , and ...
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