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 52
... sleep with what he always called me , what I always hated : " Little Peg . Little Peg . Little Peg . " Your fists tightened like in your sleep , until your father came home and your mother was gone there and had not come had never come ...
... sleep with what he always called me , what I always hated : " Little Peg . Little Peg . Little Peg . " Your fists tightened like in your sleep , until your father came home and your mother was gone there and had not come had never come ...
Page 214
... sleep with him ? ” Do I sleep with him ? Of course not . But I had to answer because the question had quieted everyone . " Yes , " I said , “ in my worst nightmares . " " What'd he get ? " " A plus . " " Fuckin ' right , " said Burns ...
... sleep with him ? ” Do I sleep with him ? Of course not . But I had to answer because the question had quieted everyone . " Yes , " I said , “ in my worst nightmares . " " What'd he get ? " " A plus . " " Fuckin ' right , " said Burns ...
Page 232
... sleep routine . You're sabotaging your- self . " Wind - in - sycamore sounds came from the television . Golden light around the bird - like shadow of pen and hand over paper . Everything darkening . The windiness becoming whirling pro ...
... sleep routine . You're sabotaging your- self . " Wind - in - sycamore sounds came from the television . Golden light around the bird - like shadow of pen and hand over paper . Everything darkening . The windiness becoming whirling pro ...
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