Tumble Home: A Novella and Short StoriesScribner, 1997 - 155 síður "Tumble Home" is narrated by people with skewed visions of home. Not exactly crazy, they become obsessed and irrational as their inner logic leads them astray. In the title novella, a woman living in a psychiatric halfway house writes to a man she has met only once. Proceeding in brief vignettes that link and illuminate, she recounts her peculiar life with the other patients. The accretions of anecdote lead deeper and deeper into the psyche and history of the narrator, gradually revealing the reason for her urgent letter. |
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... clothes were too big ? Why I kept having to push up the sleeve of my sweater to lift my cup of tea ? This is a holdover from high school , from when I read in a women's magazine that to make yourself look small , you should wear your ...
... clothes were too big ? Why I kept having to push up the sleeve of my sweater to lift my cup of tea ? This is a holdover from high school , from when I read in a women's magazine that to make yourself look small , you should wear your ...
Síða 107
... clothes on , and slunk away in defeat . ( A saleswoman at a pet store later neutralized the cabbie . I went to a fancy shop on the Rue de Trop Cher to buy a friend's dog a collar . The sales- woman , before she would show me the collars ...
... clothes on , and slunk away in defeat . ( A saleswoman at a pet store later neutralized the cabbie . I went to a fancy shop on the Rue de Trop Cher to buy a friend's dog a collar . The sales- woman , before she would show me the collars ...
Síða 123
... clothes , Chatty makes us talk to her about men . As many men as we remember . Some , like you , have been painters . Maybe all of them have been painters . Even the gardener here , when he isn't numbing our minds with endless talk of ...
... clothes , Chatty makes us talk to her about men . As many men as we remember . Some , like you , have been painters . Maybe all of them have been painters . Even the gardener here , when he isn't numbing our minds with endless talk of ...
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