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Title: TUMBLE HOME: A NOVELLA AND SHORT STORIES by Amy Hempel ISBN: 0-684-83887-7 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 28 May, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Not a big fan
Comment: I am usually a really big fan of short stories, but this book just didn't grab me...I can't say that I even LIKED one of the short stories...
Rating: 5
Summary: "I am not quite myself, I think."--Tumble Home
Comment: Amy Hempel's beautiful novella, Tumble Home, takes the form of a an epistolary journal. A woman in an upscale halfway house--different from mental health facilities I have visited-- writes a letter to an artist she has met only once. Much of this letter is hilarious: she writes about pet therapy at a nearby veterinarian's, and watching TV with her fellow patients.
"There is a television in here now. I'll watch whatever is on, such as the swimsuit special that I watched with Warren. It was actually about the making of the special, and it intercut footage of the models arching their backs in the surf with segments in which the photographer described what he had to do to get that shot. Warren became irritated by the photographer's intrusion. He said it was like being a teenager and trying to masturbate to Petticoat Junction..."
Hempel is a talented poet whose work I respect and love. This novella could be paired with Hortense Calisher's In the Slammer with Carol Smith, a novel written in the form of a journal by an intelligent bag lady who has been homeless.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing
Comment: Hempel is a master at weaving different voices and styles through her short stories and novellas. She, at times, borders on almost a prosetry in her work which some may find difficult, but I believe is bold, insightful, and some of the best writing in America today.
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Title: Reasons to Live: Stories by Amy Hempel ISBN: 0060976721 Publisher: Harperperennial Library Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: The Contortionist's Handbook by Craig Clevenger ISBN: 1931561486 Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: Fugitives and Refugees : A Walk in Portland, Oregon by Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 1400047838 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 08 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Diary: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0385509472 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Ice at the Bottom of the World : Stories by Mark Richard ISBN: 0385415443 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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