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 55
... turned off and the car parked outside the garage , there is enough of a moon to see that there is no missing it over there across the street in the part of the cemetery the people around here call the annex . The annex is for when the ...
... turned off and the car parked outside the garage , there is enough of a moon to see that there is no missing it over there across the street in the part of the cemetery the people around here call the annex . The annex is for when the ...
Síða 88
... turned the counter mirror , put the earrings on , hooked my hair behind my ears . " What would I wear them with ? " I asked Chatty . " They don't go with anything I own . " " Then you'll have to start life anew , " Chatty said . I think ...
... turned the counter mirror , put the earrings on , hooked my hair behind my ears . " What would I wear them with ? " I asked Chatty . " They don't go with anything I own . " " Then you'll have to start life anew , " Chatty said . I think ...
Síða 104
... turned over palm or card . He was not urging duplicity ; I think he meant for me to be what a certain kind of woman calls " clever . " The psychic was right , yet I am such a fraud : " Are your parents still alive ? " " My father lives ...
... turned over palm or card . He was not urging duplicity ; I think he meant for me to be what a certain kind of woman calls " clever . " The psychic was right , yet I am such a fraud : " Are your parents still alive ? " " My father lives ...
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