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Tumble Home: A Novella and Short Stories

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Critically acclaimed master of the short story Amy Hempel’s 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.

Language: English

Pages: 160

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Scribner

Release: May 28, 1998

ISBN: 0684838877

ISBN 13: 9780684838878

Tumble Home: A Novella and Short Stories

4/5 ( ratings)

Critically acclaimed master of the short story Amy Hempel’s 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.

Language: English

Pages: 160

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Scribner

Release: May 28, 1998

ISBN: 0684838877

ISBN 13: 9780684838878

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