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 88
... told me about a niece's wedding where she had to step back from the carved - ice swan - she thought she was going to melt it . She is given to asking leading questions ( " How many feet do you use when you drive ? " « 88 » TUMBLE HOME.
... told me about a niece's wedding where she had to step back from the carved - ice swan - she thought she was going to melt it . She is given to asking leading questions ( " How many feet do you use when you drive ? " « 88 » TUMBLE HOME.
Síða 104
... thought if she killed anyone , the one she killed would be me . " And my father said , " I know . " My only job was not to get killed . At home , at school , at the movies , at a party , riding a horse , rowing a boat , skating on ice ...
... thought if she killed anyone , the one she killed would be me . " And my father said , " I know . " My only job was not to get killed . At home , at school , at the movies , at a party , riding a horse , rowing a boat , skating on ice ...
Síða 132
... thought she saw a squall , the water churning with storm . It moved toward her , closing in till she could make out leaping forms ; it looked to her like hundreds of leaping fish . She bobbed in the waves , enduring contractions , and ...
... thought she saw a squall , the water churning with storm . It moved toward her , closing in till she could make out leaping forms ; it looked to her like hundreds of leaping fish . She bobbed in the waves , enduring contractions , and ...
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