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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... weeks . In the second week of the fall semester seven of my eighteen students have dropped the course . Most of the students in Introduction to Making Fiction lack the money ( or , in a few cases , the guts ) to go to the college or ...
... weeks . In the second week of the fall semester seven of my eighteen students have dropped the course . Most of the students in Introduction to Making Fiction lack the money ( or , in a few cases , the guts ) to go to the college or ...
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... week , Spellman Buried ; Beauty Salon Burglary Is Hairy Affair ; Washkansky Listed Critical ; McNamara Gone : Was Political Liability . Louise handed me another Barbara Gilliam letter about the gentlemanly treatment the 3rd Infantry had ...
... week , Spellman Buried ; Beauty Salon Burglary Is Hairy Affair ; Washkansky Listed Critical ; McNamara Gone : Was Political Liability . Louise handed me another Barbara Gilliam letter about the gentlemanly treatment the 3rd Infantry had ...
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... Week Bargain Days at the Albertson's Grocery in my neighborhood . Peg and I had a cart with bad wheel alignment ... weeks , so Mom was feeling sentimental , remembering back when Anthony and Peg and I used to go with her , me in the cart ...
... Week Bargain Days at the Albertson's Grocery in my neighborhood . Peg and I had a cart with bad wheel alignment ... weeks , so Mom was feeling sentimental , remembering back when Anthony and Peg and I used to go with her , me in the cart ...
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