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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... gorilla , as I sat to you - after she , too , admired my green - rimmed glasses . I think you could see that , had you let me , I would have talked about that gorilla till brooms were thrust under our feet . The situation is this : if ...
... gorilla , as I sat to you - after she , too , admired my green - rimmed glasses . I think you could see that , had you let me , I would have talked about that gorilla till brooms were thrust under our feet . The situation is this : if ...
Síða 119
... gorilla I met , the one who signs , was given a push , but it didn't work . The people with whom she lives wanted her to mate . They brought in a suitable male , younger and larger than she , and set them up to cohabit . The female gorilla ...
... gorilla I met , the one who signs , was given a push , but it didn't work . The people with whom she lives wanted her to mate . They brought in a suitable male , younger and larger than she , and set them up to cohabit . The female gorilla ...
Síða 120
A Novella and Short Stories Amy Hempel. primates . It held the gorillas ' attention , and when the film was over , the female gorilla signed to the male , " Climb up my back . " But he did not have her language skills , and did not ...
A Novella and Short Stories Amy Hempel. primates . It held the gorillas ' attention , and when the film was over , the female gorilla signed to the male , " Climb up my back . " But he did not have her language skills , and did not ...
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