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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... hold a grudge had a conversation with him , and passed along the news that since the coma he often couldn't think of the word he meant to say , and the word that came out in its place was government . He was not aware that he said it ...
... hold a grudge had a conversation with him , and passed along the news that since the coma he often couldn't think of the word he meant to say , and the word that came out in its place was government . He was not aware that he said it ...
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A Novella and Short Stories Amy Hempel. woman's life preserver was not enough to hold her above the water . She panicked , scanning the horizon where she thought she saw a squall , the water churning with storm . It moved toward her ...
A Novella and Short Stories Amy Hempel. woman's life preserver was not enough to hold her above the water . She panicked , scanning the horizon where she thought she saw a squall , the water churning with storm . It moved toward her ...
Síða 144
... hold it , rolled , in the front seat of the rented car . When another car cut suddenly in front of us , I struck out my arm reflexively when my father pressed the brake , and put a dent in the painting which was eased out , at no small ...
... hold it , rolled , in the front seat of the rented car . When another car cut suddenly in front of us , I struck out my arm reflexively when my father pressed the brake , and put a dent in the painting which was eased out , at no small ...
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