Tumble Home

A Novella and Short Stories

Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary
Cover of the book Tumble Home by Amy Hempel, Scribner
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Author: Amy Hempel ISBN: 9781439105122
Publisher: Scribner Publication: May 28, 1998
Imprint: Scribner Language: English
Author: Amy Hempel
ISBN: 9781439105122
Publisher: Scribner
Publication: May 28, 1998
Imprint: Scribner
Language: English

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.

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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.

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