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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... girls . For one hun- dred years a tony school for girls in the Georgian style with a circular drive , then mounting fiscal problems and a merger with the corresponding school for boys , only the name retained in the hyphenated name of ...
... girls . For one hun- dred years a tony school for girls in the Georgian style with a circular drive , then mounting fiscal problems and a merger with the corresponding school for boys , only the name retained in the hyphenated name of ...
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... girl had not seemed to see me watching , although maybe ghosts know ? Without having to turn to look up at you ? These ghosts were not the first ghosts I had seen , but they were the first ones I saw that moved , as when the girl , who ...
... girl had not seemed to see me watching , although maybe ghosts know ? Without having to turn to look up at you ? These ghosts were not the first ghosts I had seen , but they were the first ones I saw that moved , as when the girl , who ...
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... girl would go up to another girl and say of one of the boys , " He's really cute . " And suddenly the girl to whom this was said , a girl who had not previously noticed this fellow , was taking another look and thinking to herself ...
... girl would go up to another girl and say of one of the boys , " He's really cute . " And suddenly the girl to whom this was said , a girl who had not previously noticed this fellow , was taking another look and thinking to herself ...
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