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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... mother as hers . " Alex , " Jack said after a while , " we've managed to talk for an hour without either one of us ... mother's life had already ended . Alex said her mother was the oldest person kids called by her first name . She said ...
... mother as hers . " Alex , " Jack said after a while , " we've managed to talk for an hour without either one of us ... mother's life had already ended . Alex said her mother was the oldest person kids called by her first name . She said ...
Síða 104
... mother ? " " My mother is dead . " " Of what ? " " She did it herself , ” I said , and let you think that that was hard on a girl , a tragedy . Is this where I exhibited a ruinous lapse of judgment ? Asking if you had known my mother ...
... mother ? " " My mother is dead . " " Of what ? " " She did it herself , ” I said , and let you think that that was hard on a girl , a tragedy . Is this where I exhibited a ruinous lapse of judgment ? Asking if you had known my mother ...
Síða 113
... mother screaming , " I didn't lose ! " The mother put the child to bed and lay beside the child for a while in the bed . When I go to sleep , I sleep on the side of the bed my mother used to sleep on . Sometimes , at dawn , I wake up ...
... mother screaming , " I didn't lose ! " The mother put the child to bed and lay beside the child for a while in the bed . When I go to sleep , I sleep on the side of the bed my mother used to sleep on . Sometimes , at dawn , I wake up ...
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