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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... all played charades . We were uniformly bad at the game . I pulled a hard one that no one could guess , no one came close to this person's name . In a private session sev- eral days later , when my counselor asked if I « 106 » TUMBLE HOME.
... all played charades . We were uniformly bad at the game . I pulled a hard one that no one could guess , no one came close to this person's name . In a private session sev- eral days later , when my counselor asked if I « 106 » TUMBLE HOME.
Síða 107
A Novella and Short Stories Amy Hempel. eral days later , when my counselor asked if I had any questions , I said yes- " How would you have done ' Nancy Reagan ' ? " At the same time each evening , a counselor checks to see that no one ...
A Novella and Short Stories Amy Hempel. eral days later , when my counselor asked if I had any questions , I said yes- " How would you have done ' Nancy Reagan ' ? " At the same time each evening , a counselor checks to see that no one ...
Síða 108
... counselors , " There are twelve million others in this country alone that I am not able to help ! " And she said , " It ... counselor here we suspect of being some- thing more . She gives such encouraging and optimistic guidance that one ...
... counselors , " There are twelve million others in this country alone that I am not able to help ! " And she said , " It ... counselor here we suspect of being some- thing more . She gives such encouraging and optimistic guidance that one ...
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