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Article: Tumble Home. (Reviews).(Brief Article) (book review)
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- Studies in Short Fiction
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- March 22, 1998
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TUMBLE HOME by Amy Hempel. New York: Scribner's, 1997. 192 pages. $21 cloth; New York: Scribner's, 1998. 156 pages. $10 paper
At its best, Amy Hempel's fiction offers what Virginia Woolf called "moments of being": "I find that scene-making is my natural way of marking the past. A scene always comes to the top; arranged; representative," Woolf wrote in her journal near the end of her life. "At some moments," she wrote, "without a reason, without an effort, the sealing matter cracks; in floods reality; that is a scene--for they would not survive so many ruinous years unless they were made of something permanent." In Tumble Home, a collection of short stories and a ...