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Item:TUMBLE HOME by Amy Hempel, 1st Edition, Hardcover

TUMBLE HOME by Amy Hempel, 1st Edition, Hardcover

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Author: Amy HempelFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: ScribnerISBN-10: 0684833751
ISBN-13: 9780684833750Subject: Literature, Modern
Publication Year: 1997Topic: --
Special Attributes: 1st EditionLanguage: English
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A novella and stories by Amy Hempel about obsessed characters with irrational ideas about what constitutes "home."

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Length:155 pages
Height:8.3 in.
Width:6.3 in.
Thickness:0.8 in.
Weight:11.2 oz.

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Amy Hempel, whom Raymond Carver called 'a precisionist," earned a unique place on the map of American literature with her first two widely acclaimed collections of short stories. Praised by The New York Times as a "miniaturist...whose fiction is marked by an almost miraculous exactitude of observation and execution," she is a master of the short story. Now she gives us seven more perfectly crafted stories as well as a much anticipated first novella. 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. Imbued with distinctive wit and remarkable compassion, Hempel's stories uncover the ironies of life and the complexities of character with language that is chiseled and unforgettably original. As Vince Passaro wrote, Hempel's stories are "charming, testy, funny, seductive...they have a fragile beauty, like tents constructed in the desert, nomad's temples, elegant and momentary shelters for some vulnerable and holy thing that can never fully be exposed."
This new collection features the first novella by the writer praised by "The New York Times" as "a miniaturist . . . whose fiction is marked by an almost miraculous exactitude of observation and execution. Not exactly crazy, the characters in "Tumble Home" have become obsessed and irrational as their inner logic leads them astray.

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"'Tumble Home' is a tour de force, and Amy Hempel's most significant achievement to date."
Washington Post Book World - Claire Messud (04/13/1997)

"Amy Hempel's outstanding short stories pack enough gut-wrenching emotion and skewed wit, in greatly abbreviated pieces, to power several Tolstoy-length epics."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Rebecca Radner (04/20/1997)

"Hempel writes with an effortless wit."
New York Times Book Review - Elizabeth Gleick (07/27/1997)

"The details assemble...into deeply moving, Gothic tales..."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Susan Salter Reynolds (07/27/1997)

"Amy Hempel's stories breathe with wit and light and play. Her voice is the giver of secrets, as well as the jokes which mask those secrets. The laughter cuts through what's bitter, making any pill she gives us easy to swallow."
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Title: Tumble Home

Author: Amy Hempel

Publisher/Edition: New York: Scribner, 1997

Format: Hardcover

Condition: Gently used hardcover with mylar wrapped dustjacket. First edition, complete numberline. Minimal wear. Jacket is NOT price-clipped, no rips or tears to jacket. Pages are clean throughout. Nice copy.

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