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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... hour without either one of us crying . " And Alex said , “ Hang up right now . " When she had recovered , she phoned Jack back . She was wistful and reminiscent , as though her mother's life had already ended . Alex said her mother was ...
... hour without either one of us crying . " And Alex said , “ Hang up right now . " When she had recovered , she phoned Jack back . She was wistful and reminiscent , as though her mother's life had already ended . Alex said her mother was ...
Síða 125
... hour is not a lot to go on . But always , before , a thing didn't work because I was too young and too old . Too dumb and too smart . But I learn from my mistakes . The certainty I feel it is something to hit back with . So in a manner ...
... hour is not a lot to go on . But always , before , a thing didn't work because I was too young and too old . Too dumb and too smart . But I learn from my mistakes . The certainty I feel it is something to hit back with . So in a manner ...
Síða 147
... hour - innocent hour over cups of tea - as part of my own , a story to pass along . But I am afraid it is like the sprinkling of rain that draws the roots of plants to the surface where the sun then dries them out . What is enough ...
... hour - innocent hour over cups of tea - as part of my own , a story to pass along . But I am afraid it is like the sprinkling of rain that draws the roots of plants to the surface where the sun then dries them out . What is enough ...
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