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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Síða 21
... side of the road , my brother counting cows on the other . But if we passed a church , the person on whose side the church appeared had to start their count over again . Why did church cancel cow ? The question was not a question back ...
... side of the road , my brother counting cows on the other . But if we passed a church , the person on whose side the church appeared had to start their count over again . Why did church cancel cow ? The question was not a question back ...
Síða 42
... side to side for Jack to see . " Trina's coming at two , " she told him . " I'll be out of the way . " " What do I do with her ? " Jack said . " She'll tell you , " Vicki said , and left for the hospital . Jack was wearing a T - shirt ...
... side to side for Jack to see . " Trina's coming at two , " she told him . " I'll be out of the way . " " What do I do with her ? " Jack said . " She'll tell you , " Vicki said , and left for the hospital . Jack was wearing a T - shirt ...
Síða 113
... side of the bed my mother used to sleep on . Sometimes , at dawn , I wake up and find myself in the pose my mother died in ― lying on her side , her arm reaching from under her head as though she were doing the sidestroke in a pool ...
... side of the bed my mother used to sleep on . Sometimes , at dawn , I wake up and find myself in the pose my mother died in ― lying on her side , her arm reaching from under her head as though she were doing the sidestroke in a pool ...
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