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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... things . And now . He only wanted to see . But her mother had told her the rule as if telling her about an eleventh command- ment . Ben shalt not see the thing nor Peg under the thing . “ No , Ben , " she said , lifting his hand away ...
... things . And now . He only wanted to see . But her mother had told her the rule as if telling her about an eleventh command- ment . Ben shalt not see the thing nor Peg under the thing . “ No , Ben , " she said , lifting his hand away ...
Page 244
... thing was unfriendly . But it wanted to be friends . I fixed my eyes on it because I felt that was the only way to hold it from attacking me . Before we did anything else on the house , we hung three of the things triptych - style in ...
... thing was unfriendly . But it wanted to be friends . I fixed my eyes on it because I felt that was the only way to hold it from attacking me . Before we did anything else on the house , we hung three of the things triptych - style in ...
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Kevin McIlvoy. said it , and I remembered the Wacky Things storybook I had read her so often when she was little . Over Grimm and Silverstein and Sendak , all of them , we liked Wacky Things best . Its refrain , " How many wacky things ...
Kevin McIlvoy. said it , and I remembered the Wacky Things storybook I had read her so often when she was little . Over Grimm and Silverstein and Sendak , all of them , we liked Wacky Things best . Its refrain , " How many wacky things ...
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