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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... eyes red and stinging . I told you I never had a pool , but that gives the wrong impression . My best friend was a champion swim- mer . We wanted to be wet , and every weekday we were . Even after a shower , our skin smelled chlorinated ...
... eyes red and stinging . I told you I never had a pool , but that gives the wrong impression . My best friend was a champion swim- mer . We wanted to be wet , and every weekday we were . Even after a shower , our skin smelled chlorinated ...
Síða 106
... eyes the love of death . I'll give you one year , I said . Have you detected a curious lack of medical authority here ? It is only missing from my letter . There are coun- selors for us , wise and complex people who do not intrude but ...
... eyes the love of death . I'll give you one year , I said . Have you detected a curious lack of medical authority here ? It is only missing from my letter . There are coun- selors for us , wise and complex people who do not intrude but ...
Síða 127
... eyes and said in a firm voice , “ Get back in your body right now ! " Who are you talking to ? I said . She had a letter from a cousin days later . The cousin's husband had had a heart attack . He had flat - lined in the CCU , until to ...
... eyes and said in a firm voice , “ Get back in your body right now ! " Who are you talking to ? I said . She had a letter from a cousin days later . The cousin's husband had had a heart attack . He had flat - lined in the CCU , until to ...
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